Hi all, I have problems using the FP2 back camera for capturing video. After the first 1-2 frames the camera loses focus completely, and the rest of the video is blurry. I have tried with “Open Camera” app and with the stock camera app with the same result. Here is a sample video , shot with the st…

Hi, I’m using FPOpenOS with the stock camera. The photo-focus works well, but I can confirm that the back-camera-video-auto-focus always stops at a blurry position… -so it’s impossible to capture sharp videos… So I played around and found a interesting thing… -When I open the back-video-camera …

Whether it’s hardware or software it would be nice to have some official comment from Fairphone on this. It seems clear from the thread that this is a widespread issue.

I have a similar problem. Nearly for every second video I’m capturing the camera loses focus after a few seconds for approximately half a second. This happens then several times when I’m recording. This is off topic. But my phone also suffers from ramdom reboots.

Same for me. I work around it by using opencamera, setting the focus and selecting “lock focus” (keylock icon). Then I can shoot the video. But can’t wait for a real fix.

Thanks for the suggestion Jaymanu, I downloaded Open Camera recently so will try that.

Hello, i am having the same problem wit my FP2. It is not possible to take a sharp video with my FP2 at all. i havent tried other than the default camera app up to now. The recent firmware update (Fairphone OS 1.2.8) unfortunately was no help. I am a big fan of fairphones philosophy, but this p…

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Hey there dear owners of fairphones I’m having the same problem with my camera loosing focus during video capture. I was wondering if somebody has received an answer from the fairphone support yet? If not, I will also write them. I can’t believe that this is a hardware issue, it really should be …

To me this seems pretty much a problem with the default camera app that appears to not be able to autofocus. Since a while I am using now “A better camera” as standard camera app. Since I have set the video camera modus to “continuous focus”, the camera is able to focus. Nonetheless, I cannot sele…

I am the one who opened this thread, but I cannot edit it any more, so here is my last update: I got a replacement phone and the video capture worked OK, even with the default camera app. If it was a bug in the app, then all phones would have the same problem, wouldn’t they? However, the second ph…

same problem here, focus becomes blurry when I start filming. Any possibility this will be fixed by an update soon?

Video capture losing focus: Broken camera?

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