Snap Camera HDR

Marginz Software

About this app

A Fast HDR camera experience with regular updates and new features added all the time.

Now with 4K 16x9 video recording on the Nexus 5 running Lollipop

Snap Camera lets you take pictures and record video with a single click, no cluttered preview screen, just the two buttons you really need and a dial to select the camera mode you want.

If you want to test this camera before buying, please install the trial version..
The trial version has all the features of the paid app but will only start immediately in Airplane mode.

Snap Camera has a simple, powerful user interface featuring:

* Touch to focus
* Pinch to zoom
* Swipe to review
* Long press to adjust photo settings with the photo controller.

The photo controller includes settings for:

* Colour and Contrast (if supported by the hardware).
* Silent Shutter
* Burst Mode
* Self Timer
* Stable Shot
* Panorama mode
* Flash mode
* Whitebalance
* Exposure
* Grid lines
* Fast picture mode
* HDR
* Additional Settings

The additional settings menu gives you access to many extra settings.

* Picture and Video Size
* Scene mode
* Self Timer delay
* Burst Mode settings
* Time Lapse
* Still and Video Focus Modes
* JPEG Quality
* Effects
* ISO
* Anti-banding
* Scene Detection
* Video Bitrate, Format and Codec
* Audio Settings

The photo editor lets you:
* Enhance Details
* Enhance Contrast (Ambiance)
* Denoise
* Add colour effects
* Add a border
* Crop, Rotate, Mirror
* Straighten
* Add image effects
* Histogram Modification
* Vignette

Additional Features

- You can see what effects will be applied and undo an effect at any time from the history menu
- Share an image with any other app such as Facebook or Google+ by clicking on the share icon
- Create panoramas by selecting the panorama icon (Android 4.0 and above)
- Fast picture mode instantly captures photos at the preview resolution.
- Capture still snapshots during video recording (if supported)
- Use the volume buttons to focus and take a picture or zoom
- Auto torch mode for low light video recording
- Use the advanced video settings to record video in resolutions not allowed by other cameras.
- Stable shot mode only takes a photo when the camera is completely still

High Dynamic Range (HDR)

HDR is a feature that lets you take pictures of scenes with very dark and very light areas. The app takes multiple photos at different exposures and combines them to make one HDR photo. The app can optionally save the original exposures and open an HDR editor.

See here for details of HDR:

http://marginz.co.nz/index.html#HDR

Some features are only available on newer devices.

Camera apps are notoriously difficult to make compatible with all hardware.
Please install and test the trial version first before you buy the paid app.

Please visit our website for tips and more details about the settings and features.
There is a discussion forum here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2055140

Please use this to report bugs, ask questions and suggest new features. Remember to say which device you have and which Android version it is running.

This app will install 2 icons in your launcher, one for the Gallery and one for the Camera. Some launchers also put the Gallery icon on your home screen.

Note that most android 4.4 devices do not allow apps to store data on an external sd card except to an area that is deleted when the app in uninstalled. From the storage location dialog, select "external sd card" to use this area. But remember that if you uninstall the app all your photos will be deleted.

To try a beta version of the app, click here after you have bought it:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.marginz.snap

Check out our great video to see Snap Camera in action.

Ratings and reviews

The most technically complete camera app I have found, with a user interface which is better than most. Plenty of options to make it work how you want (e.g. HDR and low light function). Minor criticism: manual on Web site is out of date and has some Samsung features described that are not in app but must be in API because other apps have them. Nevertheless, congratulations to Martin, the developer, and please don't give up on it.

You must work harder to want money for this, because OpenCamera is free and nearly the same functionality. When i change the autofocus to continuous, then i close the program and open again the focus mode is back to auto. Also in focus mode auto you must tap too fast to focus. The long tap quick menu: the items are too close to each other and too sensitive in a way. HDR doesn't add detail to the brightest spots and it should. When i take a photo it appears with a big delay in the gallery. In general using the application gets annoying very fast

Lately it freezes after about 4 photos, then it often fails to save photos. Also switching to panorama mode takes a long time. I don't know where the problems are coming from as it didn't have these issues when I got it. I like the app and would love to see these issues fixed or find out what is causing them. I save to micro SD rather than the phone's internal storage.

What's new

8.7.8
Many bugfixes and new features including up to 7 frame HDR.