Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS) is support now but the documentation hadn't been updated yet.
Camera app vs Google camera app
MetropleX what about when the stock camera goes possessed and starts taking photos when you open phone...doesn't that mean google camera is more prone to hacks than graphene?
Secondly does accessing the pixel 8 camera through graphene camera app still utilize the pixel camera's full potential for great photos?
Thank you.
CodexAG It sounds like you're unaware of the default enabled double tap power to open camera combined with the volume buttons acting as shutter buttons. That's not a bug. You can disable the double tap gesture.
GrapheneOS Camera makes full use of the hardware. It takes different pictures than Pixel Camera because it uses it in a different way. If you prefer the pictures taken by Pixel Camera, you can use Pixel Camera.
CodexAG Picture quality is subjective. You can use Pixel Camera if you prefer the results. GrapheneOS Camera uses the hardware in essentially the same way with a similar implementation of merging multiple frames on Pixels, but less aggressively and with a more natural look. There is no missing camera functionality on GrapheneOS. Pixel Camera works the same as it does on the stock OS, as do other apps.
I did a lot of testing with this around a year or 1.5 years ago. Google camera vs gos cam.
I found that i vastly preferred the grapheneos camera.
Video quality is equal as far as i can tell, but photos look much more natural on grapheneos cam.
Google camera has way too much image processing for my taste. The sharpening, contrast, saturation etc is turned up to 11. In my side by side comparisons, i always preferred the more subdued look.
Google cam also lacks support for lossless jpgs, and only really makes up for that by being able to shoot in raw format, but if I wanted to shoot raws I would use a real camera lol. I just use my phone as a point and shoot. At least when i was testing this, google cam would produce some strange color banding artifacts etc. I dont know if that was because of compression of images (while using hightest jog quality) being over-processed but it looked horrible in certain situations. Grapheneos cam is more consistent. Which i was extremely surprised by, coming from other custom roms where the camera quality was always terrible.
Grapheneos camera isnt perfect, they need to fix the issue where the time from the top bar will cover the settings button lol, but i think its way better. I used google cam for a long time before using graphenes too. Dont miss it one bit.
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I agree with many of the points mentioned and I also like the more natural look of GrapheneOS camera better.
If I want to imitate the "Google look", I can always do that kind of in image processing and playing around with sharpen, denoise, (de)saturation and contrast as the "main ingredients".
Unfortunately, one aspect of the GrapheneOS Camera significantly limits its usability for me: The zoom slider.
I have a Pro model and regularly use not only the main- but also the wide-angle and zoom camera.
Trying to hit the exact zoom level is pain in the ass, especially because you always cover the zoom level with your finger and the slider doesn't lock in or gives a haptic feedback at the optical zoom levels either. So if you want to switch to the 5x optical zoom for example, you usually end up with something like nerve-wracking 4.7 digital zoom on the main camera.
If this is improved at some point, I think the GrapheneOS camera would be a really good alternative also in terms of handling.
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Murcielago 4.7X on a Pro level device does not use digital zoom. Any number between 2X and 5X uses a combination of the regular wide angle lens and the 5X zoom lens! Digital zoom is for anything after 10X. After 5X and before 10X it crops to the inside 1/4 (@ 10X) of the telephoto sensor.
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My point was not so much about "4.7x".
I used it to illustrate that using GrapheneOS camera's zoom slider makes it hard to hit the exact focal length of the built-in front cameras (as it is the case with the iPhone, Samsung and also the Pixel Camera) and therefore you often end up using digital zoom unintentionally.
Nevertheless, thanks for the info on how the interaction between optical and digital zoom works.
Murcielago your welcome. Digital zoom is only for past 10X. Unless you drag your finger way up there, your not using digital zoom at all!