Sometimes i carefully set the focus in advance.
Then I press the record button.
At this very instant, the focus wildly jumps back to blurry position.
I then need a very strong amount self control to resist throw away this fair***** ! Yes, 6 months of patience and 525€, i shamelessly dream of crashing it and his modules on the floor !!
More seriously, are there any reports of people replacing the camera module and then having it working perfectly ? I would be interested in knowing that. But I’m more suspecting a driver issue, faulty blob or API.
Might be possible.
I am pretty sure that most camera problems relate to software issues. Also with the default camera, I can basically focus manually, but the camera tries to refocus a couple of seconds after the manual focus worked. This can be quite annoying …
I haven’t really taken any videos with the FP2 but just tried it and can confirm the focus problems with the stock app and Open Camera. I’ve replaced my camera module because of the broken focus which fixed the initial focus problem but this one still occurs.
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 and switch just to the front-video-camera and then back again to the back-video-camera, -the back-video-camera-focus works well!!! -don´t know why, -but I tested it now many times, -and it works…
-But anyway, I think I switch to a camera app with manual focus…
I also have the “jumping video focus” issue with the default camera app. Photos are fine. Based on your feedback, I may investigate other apps. @freibadschwimmer what app are using ?
Same problem here. I’m using the open os and it doesn’t matter which software i use. None of them can focus automatically. The switch to front camera doesn’t work for me.
When I contacted the FP support, there replied me this :
This is an issue that we are aware of and is unfortunately a software bug. We are working on fixing this and it is high on our list of priorities. Right now we suggest that those suffering from this issue try using a separate video recording app like “open camera”. The issue tends to solve itself or at least partially resolve itself when using a different app.
So it seems the only real solution we have is to wait … ? Wait for what exactly … Update ? It would be really nice to have some additional informations from the support but i don’t know how to get any since this forum is not linked to any FP support.
I also have the problem with videos. When taking photos, everything is fine, but when switching to video the image gets blurry. I can basically not record video of anything further than ~1m away without the video image going blurry. If I try to refocus, the picture is fine for a few frames and than goes back. Nearby shots work. I tried different camera apps (Open Camera), same problem. Any solution to this? Is this a software or a hardware issue? Has anyone experience with Fairphone support on this issue?
In the mean time, I also tried different camera apps and ended up with CameraMX. Video is now working fine, but only with that app. Must be a software issue, but odd that only some people seem to have it…
