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

Amazing app that provides powerful real camera features like focus peaking, auto-level, exposure compensation, etc. You can choose which controls you want on the GUI, so they are only a tap away. A great way to avoid the overprocessing of the Pixel Camera app. I only wish there was a way to have tappable custom shortcut buttons for specific zoom levels instead of a slider/pinch to zoom. Oh, and I would happily pay for an iPhone version for my wife.

Works well for the most part. However, after trying out changing the video Bitrate on the camera, it records the video fine but there is some weird desync issue. After the videos are saves to the gallery, I try to play them. The audio track plays but the video stays still, and then when the duration of the video is up, the video starts playing at the timer indicates about 11 minutes for a 30 second video, which is quite odd. Tried changing internal storage and external, same issue

I use this app daily for photos and video and it works great, it has lots of features and is less invasive than the default Samsung app. One thing I wish it would do better is alert you when you are in timelapse mode; I've made the mistake more times than I'd like to admit where I forget my last video was a timelapse and then the next video I record is also a timelapse when it's supposed to be real-time, very frustrating.

What’s new

New optional on-screen icons for locking orientation to portrait/landscape, and preview shots. Grids now rotate when auto-level is enabled. Exif tags now supported for WebP and PNG image formats. Panorama photos now store XMP metadata to mark these as panorama images (JPEG formats only).

Photos no longer save on UI thread when using "Pause after taking photo" option.

Various other improvements and bug fixes.