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

really nice, but there is an issue with the pitch and level lines being very incorrect. running on a Samsung s21+. I have a level app and have calibrated my phone using an analog torpedo level and a flat tripod head till it's perfect, yet when I turn on level and pitch lines I have turn turn my phone around 23 deg. to get level lines and the picture is very far from level. repeatedly checking with the level app shows it's perfectly calibrated. but the open camera app is way off. rest is great!

Great with camera 2 API enabled except for capturing video. At normal video speed there is no option for ISO/shutter speed at either auto or manual and remains stuck at a default setting. It also fails to reconnect to the camera after finishing filming a video freezing the app requiring an app reset, but saves the video. Strangely when changing camera speeds to any but normal the ISO/shutter speed options return and the error does not occur anymore. Rather frustrating, using a pixel 6 pro

Most of the functionality of this app relies on what the camera can do and that can be disappointing in its own right. However, there are two issues where the app falls short: One is the shutter time limitation of 0.6 s - far too short for high quality night time photography. The other is that when the camera is held upside down (which I have to do to attach it to a gimbal) the "right handed" menu is on the left (as is the left-handed menu). Not good. Also interval shooting is quite inaccurate.

What's new

Improved user interface icons. Smoother zoom for Camera2 API. Camera vendor extensions show percentage progress on supported Android 14 devices.

New option for on-screen icon to enable/disable focus peaking.

Support for themed/monochrome application icon.

Fixed poor performance if using Storage Access Framework when save folder had many files.

Various other improvements and bug fixes.

Fixed bugs in 1.53 related to video subtitles option.