diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f436fc2cea..c7c76ecf35 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ OCV_OPTION(WITH_VA             "Include VA support"                          OFF
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_VA_INTEL       "Include Intel VA-API/OpenCL support"         OFF  IF (UNIX AND NOT ANDROID) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_MFX            "Include Intel Media SDK support"             OFF   IF ((UNIX AND NOT ANDROID) OR (WIN32 AND NOT WINRT AND NOT MINGW)) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_GDAL           "Include GDAL Support"                        OFF  IF (NOT ANDROID AND NOT IOS AND NOT WINRT) )
-OCV_OPTION(WITH_GPHOTO2        "Include gPhoto2 library support"             ON   IF (UNIX AND NOT ANDROID AND NOT IOS) )
+OCV_OPTION(WITH_GPHOTO2        "Include gPhoto2 library support"             OFF  IF (UNIX AND NOT ANDROID AND NOT IOS) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_LAPACK         "Include Lapack library support"              (NOT CV_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION)  IF (NOT ANDROID AND NOT IOS) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_ITT            "Include Intel ITT support"                   ON   IF (NOT APPLE_FRAMEWORK) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_PROTOBUF       "Enable libprotobuf"                          ON )