Camera development progress

reC · March 15, 2021, 1:33am

openEXR is an image container format that has all sorts of goodies and can be compressed.

wednesday · March 19, 2021, 9:03pm

by folding in half or using a mirror

amarok · March 20, 2021, 4:59pm

Latest results:https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next/uploads/555ae68ccec46fe5a9e9146d54b8d260/processed.png

amosbatto · March 20, 2021, 5:25pm

The picture is 1200x1600 resolution from the front camera. Kudos to Dorota, Martin and Sebastian for their work on this. Now if they can get the auto-focus to work, I will be more than happy.

dcz · March 20, 2021, 5:40pm

Autofocus is only relevant for the big camera, and will require cooperation with application developers. We can show off some of it in prototypes, but in the end, we’ll have to work with camera apps to integrate autofocus properly.

dos · March 20, 2021, 6:00pm

I just take the data already produced by others and format it for displaying, I have no slightest clue about what’s going on kernel-side - so let me redirect those kudos sent to me towards Dorota and Martin

dcz · March 20, 2021, 7:31pm

Interested application developers can start testing the kernel: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next/-/merge_requests/348

johan-bjareholt · March 21, 2021, 12:45am

Where will (auto)focus be handled? Would utilities such as libcamera make sense?

dos · March 21, 2021, 1:57am

The rear camera at full resolution with (rough) manual focus:

More details:

Ick · March 21, 2021, 2:02am

Wow, that’s amazing. Greetings to your cat.

And now anyone should tell “camera is not working mimimi” in any review. I don’t know if you finished this driver completely (i guess no?), what are the next plans with application etc?

carlosgonz · March 21, 2021, 2:27am

Wow looks really good, a big thanks to @dos and the cat.

dcz · March 21, 2021, 2:46am

Focus will be handled in v4l2 in the kernel (needs work), autofocus is up to applications.

I didn’t investigate yet, there’s still a bunch of work kernel-side.

Let the community take care of that while finishing the kernel side

JR-Fi · March 21, 2021, 8:23am

Kudos to @dcz - looking good

I’m still of the mind that we need an L5 selfie (an I mean of the phone). Either L5 on L5 or via mirror. Optionally via 7th dimension or using gravimetric lensing to turn the view in on itself

Skalman · March 21, 2021, 9:12am

@dos posted this one earlier:

carlosgonz · March 21, 2021, 6:37pm

Big thanks to @dcz @cat @purism

weirdnerd · March 22, 2021, 2:04pm

This is amazing. Thanks for the great work to get the cameras working! The last excuse I had is gone now–I placed my Librem 5 order last night

Gavaudan · March 22, 2021, 3:08pm

How does this work?

JR-Fi · March 22, 2021, 9:37pm

It was supposed to mean “using one L5 to take pic of another L5” …but if I’d get to choose, I’d go for the gravimetric lensing, bends the light 180+ degrees - I just wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the same region of galaxy that would have an object capable of that much warp

carlosgonz · March 22, 2021, 10:00pm

Thanks for supporting Purism
I have a L5 Evergreen it working amazing on every update, Purism developer they doing the best work to Librem 5.

nerd7473 · March 24, 2021, 9:45pm

Or make it scriptable… When you take a picture, look for the QR code, if a QR code is found, present a notification asking if you’d want to open that URL.