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Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Why This Matters

This development highlights the progress in making Fairphone 6 a more open and customizable device by enabling a working main camera on PostmarketOS, emphasizing the importance of community-driven innovation in the Linux phone ecosystem. It also underscores ongoing efforts to improve hardware compatibility and emergency calling features, which are crucial for user safety and device reliability.

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Today i bring the working main camera!

Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction.

The color correction still a work in progress, but you can already see how much it improved the image.

before:

After:

But the after is still very grainy, plasma camera storing in jpg isn't exactly helping either, ill be working to get rid of the grain.

If we look at the same scene form my android galaxy A16 you see that there still is alot of work to be done:

I'll continue to work on the camera, but i wanted to get something out today (mainly so i could send to nondescriptpointer xd)

I asked him what role he wanted to play in the upstreaming and we agreed he would send it and i would review and assist. ~~So i successfully pulled down another soul into the linux phone kernel rabbit hole muhahahahaha~~

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