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That's a massive downside IMO. I still use it, but not having access to basic things like the macro or wide angle lens or slow motion capture is a major issue that I always find incredibly annoying. My camera is a lot less useful with that app, and I tend to just not take pictures anymore because of it.
I opted for OpemCamera specifically because it allows so much manual control. I absolutely love it.
For someone seeking a point-and-shoot experience though, OpenCamera isn't really there, and I don't know any other FOSS app that does it right while striking a balance between clean UX, exposed features, and optimizing the ISO and shutter (dependent on environment, WB & lighting conditions) to take pictures crazy fast. There is also this odd bug on my device where the left and right audio channels are swapped during video recording.
IMO the Galaxy S4 and S5 series absolutely nailed the perfect camera UX with the stock app, most since then have just been "inspired" by iOS and aren't all that intuitive.
Closed source, modified GCam is the only alternative I can think of
Yeah, the only alternative I know of would be Gcam with unnecessary permissions removed.
Other than that, the LineageOS default cam can use all the lenses, but doesn't have any useful manual settings.
Nope, not on my one+ 9pro at least. It's the same as opencamera, but without the manual control. So it's even worse.
Edit: no it does have access to all lenses actually, the auto-focus on the macro lens just doesn't work (making that one useless). It still doesn't do slow-motion though.
Oh wow, so it's even worse than I thought. It works on my one+ 5t, but maybe because I'm running DivestOS? Or one+ has just closed down the camera api on newer models
I updated my comment, I was mistaken.
it does have access to all lenses actually, the auto-focus on the macro lens just doesn't work (making that one useless). It still doesn't do slow-motion recording though.
Ohhh, okay. Gotta say, wouldn't have surprised me though.
So you basically have a fixed focus distance, or is it all over the place because the auto-focus freaks out?
It's fixed focus, but at the maximum distance which is pretty close the minimum distance for the regular lense.
Oh, that sounds annoying. If it's any consolation, there's clip-on macro lenses for closer focus that can be had for just a few bucks.
Speaking from experience, you can produce some really cool shots with those, if there isn't any other solution for that problem.