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

elrond · April 16, 2024, 6:07pm

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:

github.com/almalence/OpenCamera

Can't set zoom level less than 1.0

opened 04:08PM - 31 Oct 21 UTC

lbdroid

While it is not intuitive for a camera to have a zoom level that is less than 1,… google uses this in order to select the wide angle lens on certain phones. In particular, Pixel 6 supports zoom in the range of 0.7 through 20.0. The hal picks the camera based on the selected zoom level. This phone has only 2 logical cameras, despite having 4 physical sensors. Wide angle sensor: 0.7 to 0.9 Main: 1.0 to 4.2 (not sure of upper limit on non-Pro) Telephoto: 4.3 to 20.0 (Pixel 6 Pro only) In addition, the video conferencing camera on these phones support zoom level in the range of 0.9 through 10.0. The open source camera software in development as linked below does a wonderful job setting the available zoom. It defaults to 1.0, and sets a zoom slider part way through its range, allowing access to all zoom levels and therefore of all camera sensors: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera

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

Can you help me? What am I missing?

howzsteev · April 16, 2024, 6:48pm

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