OpenCamera on the FP5: How to use wide angle camera?

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I just got my new FairPhone 5. I am happy with it.

I like OpenCamera. I installed it from F-Droid and activated Camera API 2.

But still I miss how to use the ultra wide angle second back camera?

Is there anything I need to enable? Or is it just not working?

Using some debuging tools like CPUInfo it seems that normal apps only see two cameras (one back, one front). So maybe the ultra wide angle camera is enabled by zooming “out” (below zoom level 1)?

I found this issue on Github:

But that’s on unofficual repo. I didn’t find anything on the official repo either.

Can you help me? What am I missing?

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I press on the word lens 1 and it changes to the word lens 2 and the ultra wide lens. I don’t have opencamera so this might not be possible

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Even using the Pro-Version of the installed camera app makes a problem: there is no way to use the ultra-wideangle. How stupid!
I tried out different Camera-Apps - but they all do not recognize the wideangle.

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With FP 5? Which camera-app ur using? Cant find “Lens 1” /“Lens 2”.

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Yes FP5 but i run /e/os and it’s default camera app. Sorry I should have mentioned that.

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I start to wonder, whether the FP5 HAL conforms to the suggested behaviour:

In most cases, devices running Android 9 and higher expose all physical cameras […] along with an easier-to-use logical camera.

(from: https://developer.android.com/media/camera/camera2/multi-camera?hl=en#multi)

Reading that, there really should be multiple lenses to choose from (and one combining them)?

But it doesn’t look like that this is the case?

Exposing even the depth sensor would be cool. Because one could use it for interesting things.

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Whatever the reason is, better contact support. Since the FP5 I do not see the need to use another camera app and have the feeling its the same for many others.so the numebers of people needing this will be not that high.

Pleaese see for thr FP4 as reference

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Implemented with todays update

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/software-update-fp5-ut27-b-059-20240809/111327/17

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@yvmuell, that URI is 404.

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Well, this can happen with 1yr old links…
I think the correct/current link to the update mentioned is Software update: FP5 A.14 MR1 - FP5.UT27.B.059.20240809 (if still needed…)

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