Open Camera

Mark Harman

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About this app

Open Camera has the following features:
* Option to auto-level so your pictures are perfectly level no matter what.
* Expose your camera's functionality: support for scene modes, color effects, white balance, ISO, exposure compensation/lock, selfie with "screen flash", HD video and more.
* Handy remote controls: timer (with optional voice countdown), auto-repeat mode (with configurable delay), Bluetooth LE remote control (for specifically supported smartphone housing).
* Option to take photo remotely by making a noise.
* Configurable volume keys and user interface.
* Upside-down preview option for use with attachable lenses.
* Overlay a choice of grids and crop guides.
* Optional GPS location tagging (geotagging) of photos and videos; for photos this includes compass direction (GPSImgDirection, GPSImgDirectionRef).
* Apply date and timestamp, location coordinates, and custom text to photos; store date/time and location as video subtitles (.SRT).
* Option to remove device exif metadata from photos.
* Panorama, including for front camera.
* Support for HDR (with auto-alignment and ghost removal) and Exposure Bracketing.
* Support for Camera2 API: manual controls (with optional focus assist); burst mode; RAW (DNG) files; camera vendor extensions; slow motion video; log profile video.
* Noise reduction (including low light night mode) and Dynamic range optimisation modes.
* Options for on-screen histogram, zebra stripes, focus peaking.
* Focus bracketing mode.
* No third party ads in the app (I only run third party ads on the website). Open Source.

(Some features may not be available on all devices, as they may depend on hardware or camera features, the Android version, etc.)

Website (and links to source code): http://opencamera.org.uk/

Note that it's not possible for me to test Open Camera on every Android device out there, so please test before using Open Camera to photo/video your wedding etc :)

App icon by Adam Lapinski. Open Camera also uses content under third party licences, see https://opencamera.org.uk/#licence

Ratings and reviews

Has potential but not very usable. Startup is pretty slow, so quick pics aren't possible. There is also an issue with Manual and Auto, i own a Sony A7 IV and I know how to use the manual mode. But sometimes i need to take just a quick picture and set it to auto. Then there is a problem where the brightness is so high that the screen is just white... With Auto it should adjust it but it doesn't, even setting the EV to -4 doesn't help at all as it's still really white...

THIS IS IT!! i've tried many camera apps, this is the best out of 20. and I tried paid ones, too. The stock app oversharpens everything and the algorithms go crazy on the image. Some apps allowed to disable crazy sharpening and noise reduction. But only Open Camera consistently gives sharp photos. Other apps always end up with a little motion blur. Open Camera, as it seems, waits a little after you press the shutter. It listens to the accelerometer to catch the monent with the least camera shake

I loved this app when I first downloaded it, I enjoy taking before and after photos and it helps me line up the angle. But now, the last time I used it was in May, and now that it is July and I'm trying to use it again it won't let me open my gallery it is still stalled on the photo from May and I can only swipe one photo at a time. that means I have to swipe through hundreds of photos since May to get to the current one I'm trying to work with. Clearing the cache didn't help.

What’s new

More crop guides: 65:24 and 3:1. Shutter button now changes to a red square when recording video. Show current save location in settings. Don't block UI thread when first starting camera preview (for Camera2 API with Android 14+).

Removed -/+ controls for zoom and exposure compensation.

Various other improvements and bug fixes.