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?

It is what a camera app is supposed to be, it defines elegance, feature rich with no gaudy eye candy that gets in the way of actual use. I don't have to step through 'featurisms' to take a simple picture. There are advanced features available that I will use on occasion, but they are not in my way when not needed. A great camera app that allows me to shoot low resolution snap-shots, OR maximum resolution quality photographs.

I LOVVEEE this app. it fixes all the problems I have with the camera app that comes with my phone. I love love love it. but... I kind of miss the old shutter sound lol.. it's no big deal but I kind of got really attached to that obnoxious click everything I took a picture. all my friends kinda made fun of it so I understand why it changed, but maybe you could add it back as an alternative sound I can manually choose in settings? for me? :]

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.