Video/image out of focus using back camera on Samsung with Media Captu

Mobile Galaxy Camera
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Hi, not entirely sure if this is the right forum but I’ve tried everything including stackoverflow, but no luck so far. Hoping someone here has any ideas!

I am using the Media Capture and Streams API in an application (the goal is to make a photo of a drivers license). I am running into the problem that using the back facing camera on Samsung phones (I have so far tried the S20 and S22) the camera doesn’t focus correctly (or I should I say at all) and it’s impossible to get a clear photo. Oddly enough, the user facing camera works perfect, which is also the case with the built in camera app (both camera’s)!

I am basically using the code from Taking still photos with getUserMedia() - Web APIs | MDN which can be easily used to reproduce the issue.

PS I have tried using several browsers.

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I imagine that is the licenses deliberately has camera blurring effects that the front facing camera overcomes.

I’ve moved this to the Mobile Camera forum

Ron
Samsung Developer Relations

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Hi Ron, Thank you for the respons and moving this to the appriopriate forum.
Is there any way to resolve this?

PS Just out of curiosity, what is the reasoning behind doing this when accessing the camera from a webpage (and not when accessing it from a regular/native app)?

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I can think of several reasons and they all would be speculative and I may be totally wrong :slight_smile:

Ron
Samsung Developer Relations