Description
Open Camera is a fully-featured, completely free camera application designed for Android devices. It offers a wide range of features that expose your camera's functionality, giving you the power to capture stunning photos and videos with ease.
Key Features
- Auto-Level: This feature ensures your pictures are perfectly level, regardless of the angle at which you're shooting.
- Camera Functionality: Open Camera supports various scene modes, color effects, white balance, ISO, and exposure compensation/lock. It also offers a selfie mode with a "screen flash" and HD video recording.
- Remote Controls: The app includes a timer with an optional voice countdown and an auto-repeat mode with a configurable delay. You can even take a photo remotely by making a noise.
- Configurable Volume Keys and User Interface: You can customize the volume keys and the user interface to suit your preferences.
- Upside-Down Preview: This feature is particularly useful when using attachable lenses.
- Overlay Grids and Crop Guides: These help you compose your shots with precision.
- GPS Location Tagging: You can geotag your photos and videos, including compass direction for photos.
- Timestamp and Custom Text: Apply date and timestamp, location coordinates, and custom text to your photos. You can also store date/time and location as video subtitles.
- Exif Metadata Removal: This option allows you to remove device exif metadata from your photos.
- Panorama: Open Camera supports panorama shots, even with the front camera.
- HDR and Exposure Bracketing: The app supports HDR with auto-alignment and ghost removal, as well as exposure bracketing.
- Camera2 API Support: This includes manual controls with optional focus assist, burst mode, RAW (DNG) files, camera vendor extensions, slow motion video, and log profile video.
- Noise Reduction and Dynamic Range Optimisation: These modes help improve the quality of your photos, especially in low light conditions.
- On-Screen Histogram, Zebra Stripes, Focus Peaking: These features provide real-time feedback to help you capture the perfect shot.
- Focus Bracketing Mode: This mode allows you to take a series of photos with different focus distances.
Open Camera is completely free and does not contain any third-party ads within the app. It is also open source, meaning that its source code is freely available for anyone to study, modify, and distribute.
Please note that not all features may be available on all devices, as they may depend on hardware or camera features, the Android version, and other factors. It is recommended to test Open Camera on your device before using it for important events.
The app icon was designed by Adam Lapinski. Open Camera also uses content under third-party licenses.
Open Camera for APKshki.com downloaded 6 times. Open Camera is distributed freely in the file type apk.
Application Open Camera was checked by VirusTotal antivirus. As a result of the scan, no file infections were detected by all the latest signatures.
How to install Open Camera
- Download APK file apps from apkshki.com.
- Locate the downloaded file. You can find it in the system tray or in the 'Download' folder using any file manager.
- If the file downloaded in .bin extension (WebView bug on Android 11), rename it to .apk using any file manager or try downloading the file with another browser like Chrome.
- Start the installation. Click on the downloaded file to start the installation
- Allow installation from unknown sources. If you are installing for the first time Open Camera not from Google Play, go to your device's security settings and allow installation from unknown sources.
- Bypass Google Play protection. If Google Play protection blocks installation of the file, tap 'More Info' → 'Install anyway' → 'OK' to continue..
- Complete the installation: Follow the installer's instructions to complete the installation process.
How to update Open Camera
- Download the new version apps from apkshki.com.
- Locate the downloaded file and click on it to start the installation.
- Install over the old version. There is no need to uninstall the previous version.
- Avoid signature conflicts. If the previous version was not downloaded from apkshki.com, the message 'Application not installed' may appear. In this case uninstall the old version and install the new one.
- Restart annex Open Camera after the update.
Reviews for Open Camera
Good camera app which adds manual controls to newer devices which have removed them in an attempt to dumb things down for the average consumer. It is glitchy, though, as it often hangs after taking a few pictures and refuses to capture a new image until I restart the app. I'm running the latest version of Android on a Google Pixel device, so there is really no reason for compatibility to be an issue. I will definitely increase the stars if/when the bugs are worked out and this becomes less cumbersome to use. Until then, it's really the best option I could find, but that is only a reflection on the limited alternatives available.
A bit daunting at first, this app affords control that can be very useful. Exposure lock and adjustments on the fly along with manual focus (using Camera2 API) allow for some very close-up, well-focused photos. Hands-down one of, if not the best camera apps out there. You don't get fancy filters and dancing hot dogs, you get the raw power you need to take great photos. Great application all around.
It's a great idea, and it would be wonderful to shoot RAW images. The problem is that sometimes the photos save, sometimes they just appear to move down to the gallary after taking a photo, but they don't actually save about 75% of the time. So when you go back and look at your photos later, you're left with about 25% of the pictures you took - which was really great when we lost a bunch of family photos. Tested both SDCard and Internal storage saving. Same behavior on Xperia 1 and Xperia 1 II.
Very versatile, if you can figure it out. I use it whenever the 'stock' camera won't do what I want. I can control focus, exposure, ISO... The results are lo-fi compared to the built-in camera. Sometimes that is what I want. Force noise, blur, depth of field that the night sight or HDR algorithm will not allow. Only a few criticisms of the app. It's complicated. I was a photographer when film 🎻... So I understand it. Can't select the lens!!! Preview exposure does not match actual in the dark.
This app does a lot and I'm extremely impressed. It has more features that some of the other paid camera apps. Only one thing I wish it had (or maybe it does and I can't figure it out): an option to average the entire field of view for auto exposure. I take a lot of pictures of plants and auto exposure from a small area on the screen causes all sorts of wild lighting changes that take a bit of finagling to get right.
A fair amount of advanced features, free, and open-source make this a camera app worth trying. But its user interface is clunky and some elements are so poorly implemented that they render some features largely unusable. Since Open Camera implements the Camera2 API, I'd hoped to use the manual settings for shooting longer exposures at night on my Google Pixel. The controls for shutter speed are a horizontal slider that is rendered about one and a half inches wide on my screen, with no "steps". Any sort of precision is impossible To make it even worse, the shutter speed is not displayed until you press somewhere outside of the menu. You could spend several minutes pressing the slider and pressing elsewhere, hoping to land on your desired setting by chance. The rest of the app contains more frustrating, inconsistent, and bizarre UI options — I'll let the previous example stand for the rest of them. I appreciate the ideas behind this app, but its UI cripples the usefulness of it.
Excellent Overall! what more can you ask for than a free camera app which supports unlimited photo taking functions. Program gives you full control over your photos from exposure to iso settings. Very Simple and easy to use. New auto level function was a bit distracting but has a setting to shut it off. Keep up the great work! THE BEST!!! Hands Down!!!
Great app! I do have 2 items on my wish list. That when I'm picture mode, when your click on the video icon it immediately starts recording. Samsung's old camera used to do that & it was lovely for spontaneous moments captured. The other item is to be able to store my photos on the SD card. If that's an option now, for the life of me I can't find the setting for that.
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Author Denis Rubinov
Category: Photo
Size: 3.7 MB
Updated: 19.02.2023
Developer: Mark Harman
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