Apps Camera X, LifecycleOwner ... "Cannot be cast to..."

[Nightpoison]

So I'm working with Camerax, new to Android development, and I'm attempting to write an application that takes an image on a specific event, not button related, without having to pull up the camera application. I have it all working, but my MainActivity is overloaded. So to clean up the MainActivity.java file I decided to offload different aspects to other files. Such as normal OOP concept.

So I created a CameraFuncs.java file. Which I setup a constructor that I passed an object of the MainActivity class so I can access all the UI objects.

public class CameraFuncs
{
    MainActivity main;

    public CameraFuncs(MainActivity mainActivity)
    {
        main = mainActivity;
  ...
  ...
  ...
     }
}

my orientation listener works just fine. I have access to UI objects. Everything seems to be working just fine. Execpt when I attempt to bindtolifecycle(). It throws an error.

Camera camera = cameraProvider.bindToLifecycle((LifecycleOwner) this, cameraSelector,
                main.imageCapture);

I get the following error

I'm not really understanding whats going on with bind to lifecycle. Can something clarify whats happening here, point me in the right direction?