FP4 - gcam-port

Hi Hulk,

Interesting, I’ve been looking for a decent alternative to GCam (mostly for the third party gallery thing).

I’m not exactly convinced by the shots I took. Pictures seem to lack sharpness and there’s something a bit off with exposure, maybe the lack of HDR feature ?

GCam

GrapheneOS Cam


GCam

GrapheneOS Cam

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Gcam


GrapheneOS


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Those pictures tend to confirm the sharpness issue on GrapheneOS camera, especially on the outside pics.
Some details such as the white writings on the green “card” of your bench seem almost invisible on the GrapheneOS Cam pics.

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I think it is not quiet better, it is just different
I think it is because of HDR…

Well once zoomed of course. But if you look at the picture preview unzoomed, I feel like those kind of details are just washed away on the GrapheneOS Cam.
But yeah it’s marginal, a matter of personnal preferences. I’ll stick to GCam personnaly :wink:

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Which one of the two apps have HDR ?

On the stock Camera app I just noticed that HDR (High Dynamic Range) is not available on 48MP mode, the resulting pictures are worse than with 12MP…

The Gcam
In GOS is no possibility to set HDR

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nice to see that more custom ROMs are being worked on (:

Yes, great

Two now available

  • /e/OS
  • iodè

But iodè is much easier to install and in my opinion, more stable and comfortable.

A shame none of them comes with the possibility to flash a nano/pico GApps on it. Even if I get the point is to provide google-free roms.

your best bet is to wait for a LineageOS build.

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Indeed I am :smiley: I’m not a patient person…

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Regarding “No wide angle lens support”, I was told by support this isn’t intentional and it will be probably fixed in the future:

the wide-angle camera should be usable in other apps but I can confirm it’s not. I’ve reported this to our Quality team and we’ll likely fix it at some point in the future but for the time being, you will have to use our app for such pictures.

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Another comparison
Left (IMG_) is the GrapheneOS camera
On the right (PXL_) is the Gcam, Nikita gcam port

Both pictures were taken without HDR option.

I have the impression that when zooming in the gcam looks unnatural, somehow overdriven.
The GrapheneOS, although a bit blurrier, looks more natural.
It also looks more like reality when you look at the situation through your eyes instead of through the camera.

What is your impression?

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I agree about Gcam looking less natural in terms of brightness/colors - everything seem a bit oversaturated and whites are too strong - but the details are definitely sharper on Gcam.
In the end I’d chose the sharpest picture even if I have to edit afterwards to get better colors, since anyway, most phone pictures requires editing if you want to make it a beautiful piece.

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Don’t forget that Gcam also has a RAW mode so you can get a file without the postprocessing.

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Thank you I’ve tried it but for now no wide angle. But otherwise the gcam app is more easy to use than open camera.

I am running /e/OS, is it true that the image quality is reduced compared to Fairphone OS?

If it is true? I don’t know.
But the quality with opencamera on FPOS was much better then on /e/OS. My experience…

I gather you are using GraphoneOS. How is it on there?
Can you access the wide angle lense?

I am using iodè OS with GrapheneOS camera.
I cannot access the wide angle lens. As in every Custom ROM.
This wide angel lens is (at the moment) only accessable in original FP OS.

GrapheneOS Camera is open to download: