Reading and listening conference around Fairphone (at least), I understood that the quality of the photo does not only depend on the hardware part, but also on a growing software part. But, I was not able to understand which software part: is it the application, the driver or a firmware?
As a real example: Samsung S family has a good camera device creating great photos. What will happen if I install /e/OS?
Will I lost mostly all this feature because the dedicated Photo application will be replaced by standard OpenCamera?
Will I keep the quality of the photo even with OpenCamera because the camera firmware is not overriden?
PS: I’m not talking about feature list of OpenCamera vs feature list of Samsung Camera app, but about the quality of the image processing from the raw device.
We had a lot of interesting threads here, search for “camera”.
If you’re not satisfied with the picture quality of the OpenCamera fork /e/ uses you can do a lot in finding correct settings, especially noise reduction and it’s sharpening edges algorithm. If this is also not satisfying you can install one of the GCam ports which lead to acceptable results in the very most cases. What you will not get are the latest developments of picture manipulation (detecting objects, moving and removing them and so on).
for processing of the images and I think it’s a good idea to keep the image as original as possible because it’s more likely that later developed software will be able to enhance images considerably. Think of the ML tools that were not available some months back (e.g. SuperImage). There will certainly be some open source tools available for e in the next few months or years.
OpenCamera has a problem, almost by definition, with Samsung devices. Samsung use proprietary firmware to give access to the camera. OpenCamera can access the camera but fine tuning of exposure and other settings can get tiresome.