iakmds/librecamera

Feature Request: Manual Focus

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Suggesting a manual focus slider function. Would help a lot with trying to take pictures of insects for iNaturalist.

(See the progress in this Flutter issue: flutter/flutter#111476)

That would be a great feature, because a lot of OEMs refuse to put in mannual focus especially in lower end phones. Even opencamera doesn't have this feature at the time of writing.
The only app on f-droid that I know has this feature is FreeDcam, which is highly unstable, has an outdated UI and old-fashioned sliders even for zooming, meaning no pinch-to-zoom.

Would be a great help to add this feature, especially for people who like to take photos of plants and insects!

Even opencamera doesn't have this feature at the time of writing.

Actually, it has:

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(here, a view of my very dirty keyboard ๐Ÿ˜…)

Just make sure that you have "Camera2 API" selected on the "Camera API" option on the configurations, that give you access to more features. I hope this could be of help ๐Ÿ˜

That would be a great feature, because a lot of OEMs refuse to put in mannual focus especially in lower end phones

Yeah, the principal reason that I go to an alternative camera app was precisely the lac of manual focus. And was very disappointing that LibreCamera can't have that at the moment, because I like more this interface than the OpenCamera's one.

Thanks. That helps a lot. ^_^

I got very frustrated when a tiny spider ballooning in the air but the OEM camera app only have auto-focus which focus into the wall instead of the tiny spider, waiting for Flutter to solve...