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

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?

I take roughly 200 pics/day every day for work. Overall the app works great and I'm happy to replace the Samsung camera app with this one. There is, however an issue that is very irritating--I constantly have to quickly rotate the camera to force a horizontal image. The software can't seem to recognize how the phone is oriented. I've calibrated the gyro to no effect. Otherwise, the app works well where "Samsung Camera" falls short, including "mandatory permissions".

Shoots better macros than the app that came with the phone (pixel 3a). I know how to shoot on full manual, but I'm not fast or great at it, so just being able to change/lock the white balance and exposure, plus switch between auto-focus, macro, and infinity are what I need. It also has manual focus and focus lock. There are settings for seemingly everything. Max res 4032x3024, 12.19MP Remember, the best camera is the one you have on hand when you see the shot.

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.