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

Better and more customisable than the default camera app. So many customisations in one small package, and yet not too gimmicky and flashy like the other cameras that focus more on filters than actual tweaks. Has been my default camera for while. I think a lot of people might struggle because it has so many customisation options that aren't particularly easy to understand at first.

Yay! An app that doesn't crash, doesn't limit you on silly things, has a wide range of useful settings. It is also the only app that I've found so far that allows me to change the audio source to get rid of an annoying rubbing sound that appears during video recording (not when I use audio rec apps) ("optimised for voice calling" is best) One request please, I'd like to have a quick access bottom onscreen with which to change capture resolution please

Brilliant app! Easy to use and wlll be a great asset for secutity. To the developers....is it possible to allow the app to run in the background and also under lock screen. This will allow a user to setup an old phone as a security camera and not exhaust the battery. Secondly if you could make it to syncronize the photos to an external phone via data link... this would be the app to pay for.

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.