There is only one downside to it:
As far as I know, it can only use the phones (back and front) main camera lens. So if your phone has extra lenses for tele, night mode or whatever, OpenCamera can't do anything with them.

At least from my experience.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

OpenCamera can use both back lenses on my Samsung. My beef about it is that it's manual-select only, whereas with the built-in app the lense selection is a function of the zoom level. It's another dial to have to fiddle with often resulting in a missed photo.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, so it seems to depend on how accessible the manufacturer makes their camera api?

Does that make sense? I don't know much about how this all works, to be honest

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

I don't know how it works under the covers, but your guess seems reasonable to me.

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