Camera development progress

Same here.

Same here.

Where’s this package? Is the name I used correct?

purism@pureos:~$ sudo apt install uplayer
[sudo] password for purism:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package uplayer

Its a Flatpak
Edit: Name= Livi

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I installed it via de PureOS Store (GNOME Software) application.

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I see a lot of people have now been updated to the new version of Millipixels that has auto exposure, gain, balance and focus and seem very happy with it. I have been using the dev version for quite a while and most of the time experience the problem where Millipixels hangs when taking a photo with the back camera (described in this post).

Today I purged the dev version I was using, including dependencies, and installed the latest official version from the PureOS store. The problem with camera hangs still remains though, which maybe isn’t that surprising as I guess the now official version should be the same as the dev version I was using before.

I am interested to know if Millipixels now works flawlessly for others or if many of you encounter the above problem?

I have also upgraded to the newly released version (I’m really impressive about the work. Thanks to the devs!!! )

I have played a little around with it and I just realized that the videos I took yesterday was in the video folder and of course not the Picture folder. haha. So for now I have not experienced any real issues and I have made some very well pictures and videos.

Previous I also experienced “the hang”, but I have not experienced it with the new update yet.
To be fair I have not used it that much yet.

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Hey Purism team,
I just updated my system today and the auto scaling is amazing. You made a very good job!

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Have you experienced any hangs when taking pictures with the back camera?

Du you btw. have any reproducing steps to provoke this?

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Not really, it happens most of the times I use Millipixels. It is a bug that devs are still scratching theirs heads over. https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux/-/merge_requests/671

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Yup, I know that his has been mentioned before. Thanks for the issue-link.
I’ll bring valuable information if I get some.

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I took several pictures right now and I didn’t recognize any hangings. It took a very long time to save the picture. Between every picture I waited until I saw the picture on the little button at the buttom of the app. I also tried to press the shooting button more faster and there were no problem, until now :wink:

Hmm… nasty little bug this, especially as it doesn’t seem to affect everybody. Good to hear it works for you, though.

Yes the new version of millipixels is so much better! Thank you. Let us see some differences. The next picture is taken with L5:

The next one is how Gimp reads the dng file using darktable:

And finally the same from a lenovo tablet:

Some remarks:

I like a lot the fact that L5 produces more saturated colors. It seems that the algorithm that takes us from dng to jpg has a preference for red, which I do like.

The lenovo picture seems to be crisper, I guess due to higher resolution (?)

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The resolution of 15MPix is 4000x3000 px. You pasted a 500x500px picture. No way that the resolution is the culprit here. It’s probably inadequate focus (working on it).

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Mine has been hanging every couple pics before I upgraded and after.

I pasted a screenshot of similar on-screen dimensions. Not the original picture. Yes maybe the focus is as you say, not as good as on the android tablet.

In any case I wanted to say that I like the warmth of the colors of L5 and a thank you for your work.

So we expect focus to improve! Great news.

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Yes, the culprit here seems the focus, I also noticed that the picture is a bit too much blurry.

This is a picture I took in Venice in december using the old millipixels, after many attempts trying to regulate the parameters correctly, including focus.

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