Hi there,
I would suggest adding preset zoom values that guarantee using optical zoom. It's a feature well known from stock camera apps, which I find very convenient. Plus one click allows you to be sure that you use specific phone camera.
Cheers,
Mateusz
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Anonymous
Anonymous
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2024-08-19
Hello,
I second this. This is very important on some camera. In Google Pixel (and probably other camera using pixel binning), the 2x zoom level is a « special » zoom level that rely on the sensor to achieve a better quality zoom than other zoom level because it does not rely on numeric zoom (so there is no interpolation and so on).
Currently, it’s quite complicated/slow to reach the 2x zoom level. Most photo apps (lineageos default one, gcam…) provides the 0.5x - 1x - 2x predefined zoom level allowing to quickly reach the native resolution (wide angle sensor, normal sensor and normal sensor zooming mode)
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Stock camera apps have the advantage of knowing useful values to pick - it seems to be less common on third party cameras (although possibly I'm not looking at the right ones). I agree it would be useful - one problem would be finding the space on the UI, but potentially the current zoom slider could be replaced with a combination of buttons and a slider (similar to Google camera).
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Anonymous
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2025-02-25
If it can't be autodetected based on the hardware, it would be really good to offer the ability (maybe through the settings UI?) to specify which preset exact zoom levels you'd want shortcut buttons for; in my case (with a Pixel 7a) I never want to use the zoom slider, only the three (wide, 1x, 2x) zoom values matching exactly optical zoom.
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The next version of Open Camera will support selecting a specific physical lens (e.g. telephoto) (for devices that support this feature - it works on my Pixel 6 Pro, so hopefully this will include the 7A too). So this should save people needing to specify a zoom level per device. (Note that typically there isn't one single zoom level that the lens will change at, as it depends on lighting conditions.)
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The zoom currently has 2 decimal places of precision, which is much too fine for most needs.
Maybe an option in the settings to limit it to one decimal place, would make it easier to select whole numbers of zoom.
Another idea, is an option for 'detents' on the zoom slider, to snap to nearest whole value (and also 0.5) if within 0.2.
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I see what you mean - other cameras aren't making it easier to snap to a particular value, but only showing 1 decimal place hides if the zoom is slightly off.
The next version will only show zoom if >=1.1x, so it'll be easier to get back to the unzoomed state. Note the zoom slider does have snapping for 1x and powers of 2 - but the next version will also have haptic feedback which I've found makes it easier to snap to 1x and powers of 2.
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Anonymous
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2025-03-03
It would be nice to have user definable labels for the shortcut-buttons zoom levels per camera-device instead of reading n*x (e.g. 2x).
Why? On some phones, like my OnePlus 12, the stock app shows the 'sweet spot' zoom levels which have in sensor optimization, as equivalent mm values. For example on the main rear cam 1,2x = 28mm and 1.5x = 35mm. For anyone with prior experience with fullframe cameras, this is much more intutitive than the zoom-level.
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Hi there,
I would suggest adding preset zoom values that guarantee using optical zoom. It's a feature well known from stock camera apps, which I find very convenient. Plus one click allows you to be sure that you use specific phone camera.
Cheers,
Mateusz
Hello,
I second this. This is very important on some camera. In Google Pixel (and probably other camera using pixel binning), the 2x zoom level is a « special » zoom level that rely on the sensor to achieve a better quality zoom than other zoom level because it does not rely on numeric zoom (so there is no interpolation and so on).
Currently, it’s quite complicated/slow to reach the 2x zoom level. Most photo apps (lineageos default one, gcam…) provides the 0.5x - 1x - 2x predefined zoom level allowing to quickly reach the native resolution (wide angle sensor, normal sensor and normal sensor zooming mode)
Stock camera apps have the advantage of knowing useful values to pick - it seems to be less common on third party cameras (although possibly I'm not looking at the right ones). I agree it would be useful - one problem would be finding the space on the UI, but potentially the current zoom slider could be replaced with a combination of buttons and a slider (similar to Google camera).
If it can't be autodetected based on the hardware, it would be really good to offer the ability (maybe through the settings UI?) to specify which preset exact zoom levels you'd want shortcut buttons for; in my case (with a Pixel 7a) I never want to use the zoom slider, only the three (wide, 1x, 2x) zoom values matching exactly optical zoom.
The next version of Open Camera will support selecting a specific physical lens (e.g. telephoto) (for devices that support this feature - it works on my Pixel 6 Pro, so hopefully this will include the 7A too). So this should save people needing to specify a zoom level per device. (Note that typically there isn't one single zoom level that the lens will change at, as it depends on lighting conditions.)
The zoom currently has 2 decimal places of precision, which is much too fine for most needs.
Maybe an option in the settings to limit it to one decimal place, would make it easier to select whole numbers of zoom.
Another idea, is an option for 'detents' on the zoom slider, to snap to nearest whole value (and also 0.5) if within 0.2.
I see what you mean - other cameras aren't making it easier to snap to a particular value, but only showing 1 decimal place hides if the zoom is slightly off.
The next version will only show zoom if >=1.1x, so it'll be easier to get back to the unzoomed state. Note the zoom slider does have snapping for 1x and powers of 2 - but the next version will also have haptic feedback which I've found makes it easier to snap to 1x and powers of 2.
It would be nice to have user definable labels for the shortcut-buttons zoom levels per camera-device instead of reading n*x (e.g. 2x).
Why? On some phones, like my OnePlus 12, the stock app shows the 'sweet spot' zoom levels which have in sensor optimization, as equivalent mm values. For example on the main rear cam 1,2x = 28mm and 1.5x = 35mm. For anyone with prior experience with fullframe cameras, this is much more intutitive than the zoom-level.