Open Camera

Mark Harman

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About this app

Open Camera is a completely free Camera app. 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).
* 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.
* Completely free, and 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

I still use the app often. Mostly now for shooting video. Because the quality is high and the bit rate can be adjusted. I am hoping that a log video style can be added: like Sony has s-log. Or like Black magic. Big thanks for the app. I use it adjust the exposure of my photographs. Or the focus. Easy to use and lots of things you can adjust to your taste.

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.

This is a great Camera app. I mostly use this to capture (60fps) videos on my Google Pixel 3 which won't let me record 60fps videos by default but the stability is not good. I tried the software stabilization of this app, at first it worked fine but suddenly the stability became very bad. I hope you will fix that.

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.