Is it just me (my phone) or is flashlight color almost amber?
It’s pretty much like very old incandescent bulb.
There is some recent discussion on this in Librem 5 camera software
The summary is that the 2 LEDs are both 2400K, which I call candle light, as it is more orange than a dim incandescent bulb. There is a software change in the works that captures the colors more accurately when you select Torch under the balance setting. There will be more calibration done in the future for more accurate colors. Various forum users have asked for different LEDs.
Personally, I love 2400K as a flashlight for late at night, but the CRI could use improvement, and we need higher color temperatures for most kinds of photography and daytime flashlight use (that requires seeing color accurately). Since the LEDs can be individually controlled (after modifying the kernel), we could technically have a less bright flash for very warm and very cold color temperatures, and a brighter flash that mixes the 2 for a neutral color temperature.
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mine is yellow / amber also.
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Thanks, yes I do like the temperature / color for flashlight in dark as an ambient.
But not if I’m trying to search something in dark.
I was just surprised by it since I used it for the first time recently.
It would be pretty nice in future if color / temperature can be adjusted.
I find it perfectly adequate as a flashlight. It’s just pretty dim on stock kernels right now because of thermal issues in Dogwood batch - and nobody readjusted it back for Evergreen yet where this has been fixed. I have it already changed on my phone and I’m going to send bunch of kernel patches for that soon.
The color temperature can’t be adjusted, but the brightness can be bumped up significantly (and both LEDs can be used at the same time too, increasing the brightness even more).
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I was fairly sure that I only saw 1 LED come on, but then I looked at the stock kernel driver and was confused.