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linux phone with external camera? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How good would the experience be with a linux phone and an external camera?

I've got a pixel 6 and although camera's are getting better each year, it's not even close to a dslm. And video qualit is probably better with a proper action camera.

I mean, directly "mounting" the camera to the phone and shooting with the phone.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Would recommend using an external camera to be honest.

There is a ton of software needed to get the most out of a camera, and from the little I understand about embedded image processing a lot of it happens inside proprietary blobs. You can get the image directly as an alternative, but it will look like garbage without reprocessing the input (preferably inside an open source component, with the downside of sometimes being unable to use the hardware to accelerate this)

Right now if you wanted a high quality, mostly open source Linux device with a camera, IMO you'd be looking at the Raspberry Pi, and there is still a ton of work to do. The work being done there, as well as Libcamera, the V4L2 replacement for MIPI/CSI cameras, should eventually make its way into Linux phones - but no idea when that will happen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I thought about tethering. I've played with tethering in the past for astrophotography which is working alright.

I don't want to mount the sensor directly to the computer - that's impossible for a camera noob like me.