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

All my ⭐'s to the developers! A powerful tool that dominates any bundled camera app - and all that in less than 6MB, a rare sight! It's been years since an app has treated me with respect, rather than as someone who would panic at the sight of more than one button. And even the visible controls are customizable! Once every few years I find something that makes my wallet open by itself... Too bad you're not accepting donations. Thank you, this is beautiful.

It doesn't support all of my phone's cameras (rear mid and wideangle and front mid work, rear telephoto and front wideangle do not). And it does not switch between cameras automatically as you zoom in and out. But it lets you control shutter speed and ISO more granularly than the original app, and disable the shutter sound (very important for taking pictures of cats or other animals as they can be startled by it).

The only thing that I hawe a problem is photo captions. You can't see them until you take a photo, then you see the text was too long, and it ate few words, or the font was too big, so now everyone has to pose for another take, till you dial it in. Can this be fixed, so you can see how it will look like right on the screen?

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.