FOSS camera with wide angle lens support?
I have 3 cameras on my phone - regular 48MP, 2X zoom lens and wide angle lens. I don't really care about the 2x, but the wide angle is extremely important to me. I haven't found any camera yet that supports these lenses. They all only support the main rear and front camera. Are there any or am I forced to use patched gcam on my phone?
Posted Jan 19, 2020, 10:50 PM UTC
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My Moto X4 has two lenses on the back, one for wide angle. When using Open Camera, I can use the "switch cameras" button to switch between the three lenses - selfie, wide angle, and normal.
Doesn't work for me unfortunately. Only can switch between front and one rear cam.
I'd suggest to file a bug/ request with open camera. It's the most active project regarding foss camera apps.
Wide-angle camera works for me in Open Camera as well. It's possible your ROM is not exposing the extra camera to camera apps. Does the default camera app work with the wide-angle lens? If not, then that's your issue and you would need to bring it up with whoever built your ROM.
I agree, this does seem possible.
The default camera is the LineageOS camera and that one can't use the wide one either. It's an unofficial build so I'll ask the dev of my ROM.
Try enabling the option for Camera Api v2. It's in the settings on OpenCamera, and seems to be disabled by default. Changing from API v1 to v2 allowed OpenCamera to detect the proper resolution modes and the flash on my phone for example.
Just tried it and unfortunately it doesn't work either.