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Why is the camera so bad? I know author says the sensor is bad but I suspect it is more than that. It amazes me to see what raw images look like coming off a CCD and then what software stacks like the one in the iPhone (and apparently Pixel) will do to get such an amazing final result.

I think there is a lot of secret sauce that perhaps is lacking in the Pine software stack.

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Definitely, the GNU/Linux software stack needs improvement for everything that's not a UVC Webcam. libcamera is a relevant project in that context. Purism, who make the Librem 5, are working on that - they have a paid team, but it's small so this will take a bit.

That said, the PinePhone camera app, Megapixels, recently got better post-processing thanks to postprocessd, which may have landed in OPs Manjaro or not.

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