Open Camera is a highly versatile and completely free camera app designed to enhance your photography and videography experience on Android devices. With a wide array of features, it empowers users to capture stunning images and videos with professional-level control.
One of its standout features is the auto-level option, ensuring your pictures are perfectly aligned regardless of the angle you're shooting from. Open Camera unlocks your device's full camera potential, offering support for scene modes, color effects, white balance, ISO settings, exposure compensation and lock, selfie with "screen flash," and HD video recording, among others.
For added convenience, the app includes handy remote controls such as a timer with an optional voice countdown and an auto-repeat mode with a configurable delay. You can even take photos remotely by making a noise, adding a fun and practical element to your photography sessions.
Customization is at the heart of Open Camera, with configurable volume keys and a user-friendly interface. For those using attachable lenses, there's an upside-down preview option to ensure your shots are framed correctly. Additionally, you can overlay various grids and crop guides to help you compose your shots with precision.
The app also supports optional GPS location tagging (geotagging) for both photos and videos, with compass direction included for photos. You can apply date and timestamps, location coordinates, and custom text to your photos, and even store date/time and location as video subtitles in .SRT format. For privacy-conscious users, there's an option to remove device exif metadata from your photos.
Open Camera caters to advanced photographers with features like panorama mode, including front camera support, HDR with auto-alignment and ghost removal, and exposure bracketing. It leverages the Camera2 API to provide manual controls with optional focus assist, burst mode, RAW (DNG) file support, camera vendor extensions, slow motion video, and log profile video capabilities.
Further enhancing its utility, the app offers noise reduction (including a low light night mode) and dynamic range optimization modes. Visual aids like on-screen histograms, zebra stripes, and focus peaking help you fine-tune your shots. Focus bracketing mode is another advanced feature for those looking to achieve perfect focus across their images.
Completely free and devoid of third-party ads within the app (ads are only displayed on the website), Open Camera is also open source, allowing for transparency and community contributions. Please note that some features may not be available on all devices, as they depend on hardware or camera capabilities and the Android version.
For more information and to access the source code, visit the official website at http://opencamera.org.uk/. While Open Camera is designed to work on a wide range of devices, it's advisable to test it before using it for critical events like weddings. The app icon is crafted by Adam Lapinski, and Open Camera also utilizes content under third-party licenses, details of which can be found at https://opencamera.org.uk/#licence.
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