Camera Focus Issue

[outerpip]

Working on tweaking camera issues, and I haven't found a successful way to manually focus the camera, and while on autofocus, the smartphone camera is trying to focus every few movements of the extruder, so it gets a bit annoying. Have you worked with this any?

Thanks,

[tsbrewers]

I am having the same issue and trying to figure something out, have you had any luck?

[outerpip]

I've actually upgraded my device and no longer have camera issues. Assuming it was a hardware/software issue with the Galaxy S7. My LG G8's camera is perfect.

[tsbrewers]

Thanks, I am using an old HTC 10 and if I leave focus on, you can see it focusing on the time lapse, but if I turn it off, it is always out of focus. I'll keep tinkering.

[outerpip]

That's exactly what mine was doing. Couldn't ever figure anything out. I ended up mounting my phone to the bed so it moved with the model, and that helped some, but the trade off was the shaking created by the movement.

[DonEugraf]

If you are trying octolapse and move the head on the side before taking picture would it solve the problem?

[joejtrsmoe]

Any chance there could be a slider below auto focus off to set focal length? Would have to be added to app? It would be a great feature if someone who new android could get that to work. Especially because I mounted my s7 to an arm connected to the bed. I love this software to recycle old phone. Wish I could get to work reliably on my galaxy s5 but wont event work after newest octoprint update.

[DuyNK-3DP]

Hi @alufers , I'm someone who doesn't know anything about coding. but I did my own research and found keywords on google about camera android focus distance and focus mode manually. i don't know but i feel you can help check and add that command line. "CaptureRequest.LENS_FOCUS_DISTANCE, 0.0F" .setCaptureRequestOption( CaptureRequest.CONTROL_AF_MODE, CameraMetadata.CONTROL_AF_MODE_OFF ) .setCaptureRequestOption( CaptureRequest.LENS_FOCUS_DISTANCE, 0.0F )