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

Thank you. I'm one of those people who got an S25 and was disappointed with the lackluster camera that Samsung tried to paper over with software gimmicks. This app makes it possible to get acceptable (or better) pictures by exposing what the stock hardware can do in a simple and elegant way. I know generosity when I see it in software and you deserve my gratitude and my thanks.

The closest manual focus distance is 10 cm. This seems pretty far away to me. I was hoping to get a manual focus camera application so that I could focus well on tiny things. I don't know anything about cameras, but this feels like pretty far away? I was hoping for closer ups. The auto focus can sometimes do it closer than this i think. So shouldn't this also be able to?

It did not help with my Galaxy S5. I needed an app that keeps recording through a 4 hour show. Most phones stop at 3.99 gigs, then start over. Also the transition was not seamless, so every 33 minutes there is a 1 second break in the video, even when trying to piece it together with video editing software. Also you are limited to 9 gigs of video (why not unlimited?). But it still resets at 3.99 gigs. This app didn't do anything better than the stock camera.

What’s new

New features for supported devices (for Camera2 API): Preview Shots enables a short video saved alongside photos containing shots from moment before photo was taken. Support for choosing a specific lens. UltraHDR.

Haptic feedback. Can be disabled under Settings/More camera controls/"Allow vibration feedback".

New options: "Use milliseconds in filename" and "Optimise focus for".

Double tap to cancel focus/metering area.

Fixes for manual white balance. Various other improvements / bug fixes.