You can set the zoom level with the zoom prop, but it's already 0 by default

I've made this snack, and you're right- there's a small difference between the default Expo Camera and the default iPhone camera (on iPhone 7, at least. Curious what device you're using)

Yes I've tried that. And I have tried both iphone 7 and iphone xr.

IIRC this has to do with the resolution the camera is set to. I forget the specifics but when I was doing UIKit programming there was some kind of mode that affected the camera's zoom.

I have tried on expo 35, on an Ipad mini 4 and I also reproduce the issue.
Any update on this ?
Other related issues: #2967 #1527

@ide do we know when this could be fix? sdk 36?

On looking into this on my iphone it selects the zoom of the video recording camera not the picture photo camera view. From the expo docs it appears there's no difference between CAMERA for photo camera and video recording camera.

react-native-camera (which is based on expo-camera) attempted to handle this adding a maxZoom prop: react-native-camera/react-native-camera#2510. lots of discussion in react-native-camera/react-native-camera#1772

we could maybe do something similar. open to pull requests!

I have two projects: one with SDK35 and the other one with SDK37, and both still have this problem. Any fixes yet?

Any news on this? I have an app which relies on the camera, and while I'm down-playing the issue for the time being, it would be nice to have the same zoom as the default iOS camera app.

any updates on this?

@smirea - this is the only update:

react-native-camera (which is based on expo-camera) attempted to handle this adding a maxZoom prop: react-native-camera/react-native-camera#2510. lots of discussion in react-native-camera/react-native-camera#1772

we could maybe do something similar. open to pull requests!

Expo V 41.0.1 same issue.

still same.. really cannot believe it

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still happening

Adding pictureSize={"Photo"} prop inside Camera component worked for me. https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/camera/#getavailablepicturesizesasync

Adding pictureSize={"Photo"} prop inside Camera component worked for me. https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/camera/#getavailablepicturesizesasync

I tried this but unfortunately it doesn't work for me (IPhone XS).

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Still an issue

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react-native-camera (which is based on expo-camera) attempted to handle this adding a maxZoom prop: react-native-camera/react-native-camera#2510. lots of discussion in react-native-camera/react-native-camera#1772

we could maybe do something similar. open to pull requests!

not much can be added on top of this. if you'd like to open a pr to fix it, it's welcome. i will lock the issue now and we can discuss further in a pr