Does a full-featured camera application exist for any desktop OS?

As was originally posted at community.spiceworks.com/t/1226828: ^[1]

I want something that is as versatile as Open Camera for AOSP: ^[2] it allows me to configure the aperture, ISO, grain reduction amount or enablement, etcetera. Obviously, the brilliant Camera2 API provides this. However, the Linux-compatible V4L2 and libcamera libraries ^[3] should, too (as, presumably, Windows Image Acquisition does).

If not, I see a sensible recommendation to connect to the smartphone via the LAN, at community.spiceworks.com/t/824854/3. However:

1. On my postmarketOS devices, running WayDroid merely to capture a photograph is unreasonable, when the APIs are even exposed. ^[4]

2. On my desktop, I don't want to utilise another device's camera: I have a Logitech BRIO connected via Thunderbolt 4, which is able to capture 4K photographs with ease.

Thus far, I've tried Microsoft's Microsoft.WindowsCamera_2025.2505.2.0, GNOME's, and KDE's plasma-camera-2.0.0-3.fc43 and kamoso-25.08.2-1.fc43. They're abysmal. ^[5]

I've paraphrased it, to improve it as much as I am able to.

The Placement Of The Question

Before I posted this, I definitely forgot to verify whether software recommendations are permissible. However, in retrospect, posts/284902/history#1 appears to confirm that well-formed questions are acceptable, as do the 20 entries of the categories/61/tags/5455.

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Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)‭

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