I just discovered My BraX3 wide angle lense does not focus properly. My husband who is a professional photographer has checked it and pointed it out.
I have written to support and they told me to write to this forum?. Having waited for about a year for my phone I am pretty fed up. I feel I received a second. Could someone please contact me to deal with this issue.
I really does affect my user experience given all the issues with supply.
I was going to purchase another but not until I get some real support.
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I am a photographer as well and initially had the same assumptions; that the 2nd lens was a wide angle camera. After studying the original specifications for the phone, I have come to the conclusion that this is a micro lens, not a wide angle lens. This can be proven by toggling back and forth between the two views and noting that the FOV (field of view) for each camera does not change appreciably. Although the app says “ultra wide lens”, it is a generic Android app not designed specifically for the Brax 3, so it is mislabeled.
This page shows a 50mp main camera and “a 2MP Telephoto sensor”, which makes no sense on the surface. I speculate that the “telephoto” nomenclature is a mis-translation of the Chineese specifications for a “Micro sensor” or close-up camera.
This can be borne out by the fact that the camera is lower resolution, overly saturated and can only focus at extreme close distance.
This doesn’t make the situation any better and Brax has yet to come up with a logical rebuttal, but that is my conclusion.
One final observation: I would suggest you visit the FDroid app store and download the “Open Camera” app to replace the default camera app on the Brax3. It gives you a LOT more options on settings for both still photo and video capture. It does not “fix” the wide angle problem, but makes using the camera a lot more satisfying.
I agree with Igor’s conclusions. That 2nd Front Camera is strictly for taking close-up shots, and in my opinion, does a very good job of it, with adequate Depth of Field. And yes, the specifications, as written, make no sense at all.
I would like to also recommend an app that’s available at the Fdroid store: ImagePipe. This allows you to quickly reduce the original images’s file size, so that you can just as quickly share the smaller file with your choice of apps (such as Session, which limits attachments to 10 MB).
You’ll have to take your time going through the Settings for ImagePipe, to achieve file sizes that are as close as possible, without exceeding whatever maximum file size is permitted by the apps with which you wish to post your images, as they are taken. But once those Settings are saved, they are automatically applied when you share the image just taken, to the ImagePipe app, and from there, to whatever destination you choose.
Yeah I concurr, thats correct. IIRC its stated somewhere that its a macro (i.e. close up) lens… The confusion is mistranslating (or transliteration) of macro (or micro) lens name in original information giving wrong impression IMO. The device specs thread on this forum more clearly states its specs…
Suspect, given the 2MP sensor resolution, its really just in there as a space filler, to fill a hole, given the chassis has space for 2 lenses; and the other one is a 50MP resolution sensor with general purpose lens…
the easy way is to buy a lens that attaches on the phone and changes the optics of the camera, the more complicated one is to ask Plamen whether you can replace the bottom back camera with a wide angle lens module that can work without any further programming of the device and either buy it from Aliexpress or maybe Plamen can send you one