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

Just did a series of tests comparing the results of Open Camera against other mobile phone camera apps. Used the same mobile phone, fixed to a tripod and all photos were taken with the same settings, in the same environment, all within 20 seconds of each other. And guess what? Open Camera actually gave the best results! Clarity, light balance and ease of use left the others in a poor light! Just goes to show: you don't need an app with a thousand bells 'n whistles to get a good result!

Love it... especially ability to set light level, focus & shoot by touching a point on the screen image. Turning off the video problem is now fixed up. I love the overlay feature for aligning the camera with a previous photo of the scene. ( I can now discard an old app I had just for that.) Many excellent options included for capturing the photo as you want it.

I love the customization of the app. Have to reduce rating though because on my latest phone (Moto G9), the options drop down closes after a couple of seconds when you change the resolution, so to change more than a couple of steps, I have to be quick and therefore may miss the res I want, so have to open again. My last phone - it used to stay open so this wasn't a problem. This seems to have improved but it takes an age to take a photo. Like many seconds.

What's new

Improvements for pinch zooming. Fixes for split-screen and multi-window mode. Support for zoom and on-screen ISO/exposure display when using camera vendor extensions (for supported Android 13+ devices).

"Touch to capture" option now supports starting and stopping video. No longer cancel panorama when rotating device too far in wrong direction.

Applied a 2s timeout for focusing with original camera API.

Various other improvements and bug fixes.