- From: Jan-Ivar Bruaroey via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:49:32 +0000
- To: public-webrtc@w3.org
jan-ivar has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-image: == How to avoid wide-lens backfacing camera on new phones? == From a [stackoverflow question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59636464/how-to-select-proper-backfacing-camera-in-javascript?noredirect=1#comment105459298_59636464), newer phones have multiple back cameras. How would an app distinguish between them, specifically: avoid or pick the often unsuitable wide-lens camera? While `getUserMedia` does support device selection using constraints, I see no reliable difference in constrainable properties between a wide-lens camera and its regular counterpart. **Proposal:** A new `focalLength` constraint. This would be the distance between sensor and lens (I'm no photographer or device expert, but this seems to often be an inherent property of the lens, [e.g. on the Samsung S10](https://www.techpinas.com/2019/02/samsung-galaxy-s10e-vs-s10-vs-s10-specs.html)). This would be different from the existing (and similar-sounding) [`focusDistance`](https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-image/#focus-distance), which is distance from lens to object. Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-image/issues/255 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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