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 advanced photography modes like panorama (including for the front camera), HDR with auto-alignment and ghost removal, and exposure bracketing.
For those with devices supporting the Camera2 API, Open Camera offers manual controls with optional focus assist, burst mode, RAW (DNG) file support, camera vendor extensions, slow motion video, and log profile video. Additional features include noise reduction (with a low light night mode), dynamic range optimization modes, on-screen histogram, zebra stripes, focus peaking, and focus bracketing mode.
Open Camera is completely free and does not include third-party ads within the app, though ads may appear on the website. As an open-source application, it's transparent and community-driven. However, please note that some features may not be available on all devices due to hardware or camera capabilities, Android version, and other factors.
For more information and to access the source code, visit the official website at http://opencamera.org.uk/. It's recommended to test Open Camera on your specific device before using it for critical events like weddings. 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.
