Open Camera is a highly versatile and completely free camera app designed to enhance your photography experience on Android devices. With a wide array of features, it caters to both amateur and professional photographers looking to maximize their camera's potential.
One of the standout features of Open Camera is its auto-level option, ensuring your pictures are perfectly aligned no matter the angle. The app also exposes a full range of your camera's capabilities, including 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, Open Camera offers handy remote controls such as a timer with an optional voice countdown and an auto-repeat mode with configurable delay. You can even take photos remotely by making a noise, adding a fun and unique element to your photography. The app's user interface is highly configurable, with options for volume key functions and an upside-down preview for use with attachable lenses.
Enhance your composition with the ability to overlay grids and crop guides. For those interested in geotagging, Open Camera supports optional GPS location tagging for both photos and videos, including compass direction for photos. You can also apply date and timestamp, location coordinates, and custom text to your photos, and store date/time and location as video subtitles in .SRT format.
Privacy-conscious users will appreciate the option to remove device exif metadata from photos. The app also supports panorama mode, including for the front camera, and HDR with auto-alignment and ghost removal, as well as exposure bracketing.
Open Camera leverages the Camera2 API to offer manual controls with optional focus assist, burst mode, RAW (DNG) file support, camera vendor extensions, slow motion video, and log profile video. It also includes noise reduction features, such as a low light night mode, and dynamic range optimization modes. For those who need advanced tools, options like on-screen histogram, zebra stripes, and focus peaking are available, along with a focus bracketing mode.
What sets Open Camera apart is its commitment to being completely free and ad-free within the app itself, with no third-party ads to interrupt your experience. It's also open source, ensuring transparency and community involvement in its development.
Please note that some features may not be available on all devices due to hardware or camera capabilities, Android version, and other factors. For the most reliable performance, it's recommended to test Open Camera before using it for critical events like weddings.
For more information and to access the source code, visit the official website at http://opencamera.org.uk/. The app icon is designed by Adam Lapinski, and Open Camera also uses content under third-party licenses, details of which can be found at https://opencamera.org.uk/#licence.
