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Most of the functionality of this app relies on what the camera can do and that can be disappointing in its own right. However, there are two issues where the app falls short: One is the shutter time limitation of 0.6 s - far too short for high quality night time photography. The other is that when the camera is held upside down (which I have to do to attach it to a gimbal) the "right handed" menu is on the left (as is the left-handed menu). Not good. Also interval shooting is quite inaccurate.
Easy to use and works well with USB mics which is important to me. Update: Unfortunately, there is no support for adjusting the mic gain in the application. This hadn't been a problem for me, but more recently I've found that the gain seems to vary, my recordings with Open Camera are not always at the same level, despite everything else being the same. I also had a recording that was *way* too low and the audio was barely salvageable. Still a great application for what it does (and it's free!) but I need more mic control so I'll probably look at Filmic or something else (which will not be free.)
It used to be ahead of the curve, but the default photo app has caught up. It's still mega useful for the screen always staying on at full brightness, something I can't believe the default app won't do. Open Cam could do without many of its settings, which don't seem to make a difference, and are organized in a way I don't understand. Please consider focusing development on the photography experience itself. The "scenes" are a great start - Right now they're far too subtle. Please go hog wild!
First let me say this a very full featured app which for the most part, works excellent. I have been using it for a long time. However, be aware, it will "not work with a Bluetooth Remote Shutter device" which I depend on a lot. The remote will start the video but within ½ to 2 minutes the camera will just stop recording. I have tried 3 different phones and 4 different shutter devices and it happens every time with all of them. It has never happened once with any of the stock camera apps.
Fantastic. Been using it for several years. The advantage is full control over the hardware's feature-set, from image size, to resolution, to quality (on lossy-formats, like *.jpg), and so forth. Unlike the default app on my Samsung, which fails to offer control on common settings (on my phone, you know, the one I paid for!). Open Camera is the answer.
I got an external mic and this app works with it. I recorded 2 videos. Everything was working fine at first. But lately whenever I get done with a video, the app freezes and crashes, the video doesn't get saved. Whenever you record, it's a roll of the dice whether it will actually save the video or freeze once you stop recording. Its not reliable. If it weren't for that, it would be perfect.
Love it! Put on my Stylo 6. Just what I wanted. Control over my camera for taking times pictures. Offers so many features to set it up the way you want it for exposures, times, etc. I honestly do not see where it pops up ads yet. IF it does I really do not care. Worth it. Went thru a number of apps, deleted all of them. Kept this. May not do what some people want but does exactly what I want.
Gotta go 2 stars because of a glaring omission. There is no simple voice command that I can find. Oddly enough, you can use voice command to set the timer, but not to take a picture. Like, you can't just point the camera and say "shoot" or whatever magic word and have it take a picture. Makes no sense as that is pretty common technology. Otherwise looks like it could have been a nice app. And please, if I am just missing the voice command setting, please let me know.
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 did not help with my Galaxy S5. I needed an app that keeps recording through a 4 hour show. Most phones stop at 3.99 gigs, then start over. Also the transition was not seamless, so every 33 minutes there is a 1 second break in the video, even when trying to piece it together with video editing software. Also you are limited to 9 gigs of video (why not unlimited?). But it still resets at 3.99 gigs. This app didn't do anything better than the stock camera.
IMHO, pretty much the only 0 alternative to whatever camera app your Android phone came with. I use it to, for example, record UHD Videos at significantly higher bit rate than the camera app that came with my phone lets me. For pictures, Open Camera will let you adjust parameters such as exposure duration and many others if you want to do so. Try it!
I just downloaded the app, and to be honest, it is not giving me the reason to continue using it. The only thing that I benefit from it is that I am able to use my wireless microphone, unlike my normal phone camera. The camera quality is good as well, but has a lot of complications. Firstly, I cannot make a video with this app. My phone keeps malfunctioning anytime I want to take a video, which is not fair. Please I need this to be rectified very soon.
Over all I like this app. I find it easier to use than the stock app that came on my phone. So far my only complaint is that the photos are saved to a folder called OpenCamera, so other apps don't always find them. Changing the save location is rather cumbersome as you have to type in the location of where you want to save your photos rather than just navigating to the folder and selecting it. Other than that .. I am liking it.
This is a great Camera app. I mostly use this to capture (60fps) videos on my Google Pixel 3 which won't let me record 60fps videos by default but the stability is not good. I tried the software stabilization of this app, at first it worked fine but suddenly the stability became very bad. I hope you will fix that.
My Pixel 7 A is Very Very Very Hot while using this App , nothing else Running no other Apps are on .Can you have look in to whats cause this Heating Up it's on the back of my phone ,& the sides I'm thinking it's CPU usage ? don't get me wrong that's the only downside to this App had a few days only . every time it happens .I like the App on how it looks layout design & the manual Controls .can you let me know what's happening thanks 👍 PS I ca. only give three ⭐⭐⭐ stars, IE HEAT PROBLEMS
I loved this app when I first downloaded it, I enjoy taking before and after photos and it helps me line up the angle. But now, the last time I used it was in May, and now that it is July and I'm trying to use it again it won't let me open my gallery it is still stalled on the photo from May and I can only swipe one photo at a time. that means I have to swipe through hundreds of photos since May to get to the current one I'm trying to work with. Clearing the cache didn't help.
This is a very good camera app in almost every respect. My only complaint is that there is a horrible sharpness filter that gets applied when taking zoomed in pictures. The image preview actually looks great, then when I take the photo and look at it, that sharpness filter makes everything look crunchy and fake. A simple setting to turn off this behavior would be amazing.
Fantastic. Been using it for several years. The advantage is full control over the hardware's feature-set, from image size, to resolution, to quality (on lossy-formats, like *.jpg), and so forth. Unlike the default app on my Samsung, which fails to offer control on common settings (on my phone, you know, the one I paid for!). Open Camera is the answer.
Love it! Put on my Stylo 6. Just what I wanted. Control over my camera for taking times pictures. Offers so many features to set it up the way you want it for exposures, times, etc. I honestly do not see where it pops up ads yet. IF it does I really do not care. Worth it. Went thru a number of apps, deleted all of them. Kept this. May not do what some people want but does exactly what I want.
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.
IMHO, pretty much the only 0 alternative to whatever camera app your Android phone came with. I use it to, for example, record UHD Videos at significantly higher bit rate than the camera app that came with my phone lets me. For pictures, Open Camera will let you adjust parameters such as exposure duration and many others if you want to do so. Try it!
This is a great Camera app. I mostly use this to capture (60fps) videos on my Google Pixel 3 which won't let me record 60fps videos by default but the stability is not good. I tried the software stabilization of this app, at first it worked fine but suddenly the stability became very bad. I hope you will fix that.
Easy to use and works well with USB mics which is important to me. Update: Unfortunately, there is no support for adjusting the mic gain in the application. This hadn't been a problem for me, but more recently I've found that the gain seems to vary, my recordings with Open Camera are not always at the same level, despite everything else being the same. I also had a recording that was *way* too low and the audio was barely salvageable. Still a great application for what it does (and it's free!) but I need more mic control so I'll probably look at Filmic or something else (which will not be free.)
It used to be ahead of the curve, but the default photo app has caught up. It's still mega useful for the screen always staying on at full brightness, something I can't believe the default app won't do. Open Cam could do without many of its settings, which don't seem to make a difference, and are organized in a way I don't understand. Please consider focusing development on the photography experience itself. The "scenes" are a great start - Right now they're far too subtle. Please go hog wild!
Over all I like this app. I find it easier to use than the stock app that came on my phone. So far my only complaint is that the photos are saved to a folder called OpenCamera, so other apps don't always find them. Changing the save location is rather cumbersome as you have to type in the location of where you want to save your photos rather than just navigating to the folder and selecting it. Other than that .. I am liking it.
This is a very good camera app in almost every respect. My only complaint is that there is a horrible sharpness filter that gets applied when taking zoomed in pictures. The image preview actually looks great, then when I take the photo and look at it, that sharpness filter makes everything look crunchy and fake. A simple setting to turn off this behavior would be amazing.
First let me say this a very full featured app which for the most part, works excellent. I have been using it for a long time. However, be aware, it will "not work with a Bluetooth Remote Shutter device" which I depend on a lot. The remote will start the video but within ½ to 2 minutes the camera will just stop recording. I have tried 3 different phones and 4 different shutter devices and it happens every time with all of them. It has never happened once with any of the stock camera apps.
I got an external mic and this app works with it. I recorded 2 videos. Everything was working fine at first. But lately whenever I get done with a video, the app freezes and crashes, the video doesn't get saved. Whenever you record, it's a roll of the dice whether it will actually save the video or freeze once you stop recording. Its not reliable. If it weren't for that, it would be perfect.
Most of the functionality of this app relies on what the camera can do and that can be disappointing in its own right. However, there are two issues where the app falls short: One is the shutter time limitation of 0.6 s - far too short for high quality night time photography. The other is that when the camera is held upside down (which I have to do to attach it to a gimbal) the "right handed" menu is on the left (as is the left-handed menu). Not good. Also interval shooting is quite inaccurate.
My Pixel 7 A is Very Very Very Hot while using this App , nothing else Running no other Apps are on .Can you have look in to whats cause this Heating Up it's on the back of my phone ,& the sides I'm thinking it's CPU usage ? don't get me wrong that's the only downside to this App had a few days only . every time it happens .I like the App on how it looks layout design & the manual Controls .can you let me know what's happening thanks 👍 PS I ca. only give three ⭐⭐⭐ stars, IE HEAT PROBLEMS
I loved this app when I first downloaded it, I enjoy taking before and after photos and it helps me line up the angle. But now, the last time I used it was in May, and now that it is July and I'm trying to use it again it won't let me open my gallery it is still stalled on the photo from May and I can only swipe one photo at a time. that means I have to swipe through hundreds of photos since May to get to the current one I'm trying to work with. Clearing the cache didn't help.
Gotta go 2 stars because of a glaring omission. There is no simple voice command that I can find. Oddly enough, you can use voice command to set the timer, but not to take a picture. Like, you can't just point the camera and say "shoot" or whatever magic word and have it take a picture. Makes no sense as that is pretty common technology. Otherwise looks like it could have been a nice app. And please, if I am just missing the voice command setting, please let me know.
It did not help with my Galaxy S5. I needed an app that keeps recording through a 4 hour show. Most phones stop at 3.99 gigs, then start over. Also the transition was not seamless, so every 33 minutes there is a 1 second break in the video, even when trying to piece it together with video editing software. Also you are limited to 9 gigs of video (why not unlimited?). But it still resets at 3.99 gigs. This app didn't do anything better than the stock camera.
I just downloaded the app, and to be honest, it is not giving me the reason to continue using it. The only thing that I benefit from it is that I am able to use my wireless microphone, unlike my normal phone camera. The camera quality is good as well, but has a lot of complications. Firstly, I cannot make a video with this app. My phone keeps malfunctioning anytime I want to take a video, which is not fair. Please I need this to be rectified very soon.
Easy to use and works well with USB mics which is important to me. Update: Unfortunately, there is no support for adjusting the mic gain in the application. This hadn't been a problem for me, but more recently I've found that the gain seems to vary, my recordings with Open Camera are not always at the same level, despite everything else being the same. I also had a recording that was *way* too low and the audio was barely salvageable. Still a great application for what it does (and it's free!) but I need more mic control so I'll probably look at Filmic or something else (which will not be free.)
It used to be ahead of the curve, but the default photo app has caught up. It's still mega useful for the screen always staying on at full brightness, something I can't believe the default app won't do. Open Cam could do without many of its settings, which don't seem to make a difference, and are organized in a way I don't understand. Please consider focusing development on the photography experience itself. The "scenes" are a great start - Right now they're far too subtle. Please go hog wild!
First let me say this a very full featured app which for the most part, works excellent. I have been using it for a long time. However, be aware, it will "not work with a Bluetooth Remote Shutter device" which I depend on a lot. The remote will start the video but within ½ to 2 minutes the camera will just stop recording. I have tried 3 different phones and 4 different shutter devices and it happens every time with all of them. It has never happened once with any of the stock camera apps.
Fantastic. Been using it for several years. The advantage is full control over the hardware's feature-set, from image size, to resolution, to quality (on lossy-formats, like *.jpg), and so forth. Unlike the default app on my Samsung, which fails to offer control on common settings (on my phone, you know, the one I paid for!). Open Camera is the answer.
I got an external mic and this app works with it. I recorded 2 videos. Everything was working fine at first. But lately whenever I get done with a video, the app freezes and crashes, the video doesn't get saved. Whenever you record, it's a roll of the dice whether it will actually save the video or freeze once you stop recording. Its not reliable. If it weren't for that, it would be perfect.
Love it! Put on my Stylo 6. Just what I wanted. Control over my camera for taking times pictures. Offers so many features to set it up the way you want it for exposures, times, etc. I honestly do not see where it pops up ads yet. IF it does I really do not care. Worth it. Went thru a number of apps, deleted all of them. Kept this. May not do what some people want but does exactly what I want.
Gotta go 2 stars because of a glaring omission. There is no simple voice command that I can find. Oddly enough, you can use voice command to set the timer, but not to take a picture. Like, you can't just point the camera and say "shoot" or whatever magic word and have it take a picture. Makes no sense as that is pretty common technology. Otherwise looks like it could have been a nice app. And please, if I am just missing the voice command setting, please let me know.
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.
Most of the functionality of this app relies on what the camera can do and that can be disappointing in its own right. However, there are two issues where the app falls short: One is the shutter time limitation of 0.6 s - far too short for high quality night time photography. The other is that when the camera is held upside down (which I have to do to attach it to a gimbal) the "right handed" menu is on the left (as is the left-handed menu). Not good. Also interval shooting is quite inaccurate.
IMHO, pretty much the only 0 alternative to whatever camera app your Android phone came with. I use it to, for example, record UHD Videos at significantly higher bit rate than the camera app that came with my phone lets me. For pictures, Open Camera will let you adjust parameters such as exposure duration and many others if you want to do so. Try it!
I just downloaded the app, and to be honest, it is not giving me the reason to continue using it. The only thing that I benefit from it is that I am able to use my wireless microphone, unlike my normal phone camera. The camera quality is good as well, but has a lot of complications. Firstly, I cannot make a video with this app. My phone keeps malfunctioning anytime I want to take a video, which is not fair. Please I need this to be rectified very soon.
Over all I like this app. I find it easier to use than the stock app that came on my phone. So far my only complaint is that the photos are saved to a folder called OpenCamera, so other apps don't always find them. Changing the save location is rather cumbersome as you have to type in the location of where you want to save your photos rather than just navigating to the folder and selecting it. Other than that .. I am liking it.
This is a great Camera app. I mostly use this to capture (60fps) videos on my Google Pixel 3 which won't let me record 60fps videos by default but the stability is not good. I tried the software stabilization of this app, at first it worked fine but suddenly the stability became very bad. I hope you will fix that.
My Pixel 7 A is Very Very Very Hot while using this App , nothing else Running no other Apps are on .Can you have look in to whats cause this Heating Up it's on the back of my phone ,& the sides I'm thinking it's CPU usage ? don't get me wrong that's the only downside to this App had a few days only . every time it happens .I like the App on how it looks layout design & the manual Controls .can you let me know what's happening thanks 👍 PS I ca. only give three ⭐⭐⭐ stars, IE HEAT PROBLEMS
I loved this app when I first downloaded it, I enjoy taking before and after photos and it helps me line up the angle. But now, the last time I used it was in May, and now that it is July and I'm trying to use it again it won't let me open my gallery it is still stalled on the photo from May and I can only swipe one photo at a time. that means I have to swipe through hundreds of photos since May to get to the current one I'm trying to work with. Clearing the cache didn't help.
This is a very good camera app in almost every respect. My only complaint is that there is a horrible sharpness filter that gets applied when taking zoomed in pictures. The image preview actually looks great, then when I take the photo and look at it, that sharpness filter makes everything look crunchy and fake. A simple setting to turn off this behavior would be amazing.
It did not help with my Galaxy S5. I needed an app that keeps recording through a 4 hour show. Most phones stop at 3.99 gigs, then start over. Also the transition was not seamless, so every 33 minutes there is a 1 second break in the video, even when trying to piece it together with video editing software. Also you are limited to 9 gigs of video (why not unlimited?). But it still resets at 3.99 gigs. This app didn't do anything better than the stock camera.
Most of the functionality of this app relies on what the camera can do and that can be disappointing in its own right. However, there are two issues where the app falls short: One is the shutter time limitation of 0.6 s - far too short for high quality night time photography. The other is that when the camera is held upside down (which I have to do to attach it to a gimbal) the "right handed" menu is on the left (as is the left-handed menu). Not good. Also interval shooting is quite inaccurate.
Easy to use and works well with USB mics which is important to me. Update: Unfortunately, there is no support for adjusting the mic gain in the application. This hadn't been a problem for me, but more recently I've found that the gain seems to vary, my recordings with Open Camera are not always at the same level, despite everything else being the same. I also had a recording that was *way* too low and the audio was barely salvageable. Still a great application for what it does (and it's free!) but I need more mic control so I'll probably look at Filmic or something else (which will not be free.)
It used to be ahead of the curve, but the default photo app has caught up. It's still mega useful for the screen always staying on at full brightness, something I can't believe the default app won't do. Open Cam could do without many of its settings, which don't seem to make a difference, and are organized in a way I don't understand. Please consider focusing development on the photography experience itself. The "scenes" are a great start - Right now they're far too subtle. Please go hog wild!
First let me say this a very full featured app which for the most part, works excellent. I have been using it for a long time. However, be aware, it will "not work with a Bluetooth Remote Shutter device" which I depend on a lot. The remote will start the video but within ½ to 2 minutes the camera will just stop recording. I have tried 3 different phones and 4 different shutter devices and it happens every time with all of them. It has never happened once with any of the stock camera apps.
Fantastic. Been using it for several years. The advantage is full control over the hardware's feature-set, from image size, to resolution, to quality (on lossy-formats, like *.jpg), and so forth. Unlike the default app on my Samsung, which fails to offer control on common settings (on my phone, you know, the one I paid for!). Open Camera is the answer.
I got an external mic and this app works with it. I recorded 2 videos. Everything was working fine at first. But lately whenever I get done with a video, the app freezes and crashes, the video doesn't get saved. Whenever you record, it's a roll of the dice whether it will actually save the video or freeze once you stop recording. Its not reliable. If it weren't for that, it would be perfect.
Love it! Put on my Stylo 6. Just what I wanted. Control over my camera for taking times pictures. Offers so many features to set it up the way you want it for exposures, times, etc. I honestly do not see where it pops up ads yet. IF it does I really do not care. Worth it. Went thru a number of apps, deleted all of them. Kept this. May not do what some people want but does exactly what I want.
Gotta go 2 stars because of a glaring omission. There is no simple voice command that I can find. Oddly enough, you can use voice command to set the timer, but not to take a picture. Like, you can't just point the camera and say "shoot" or whatever magic word and have it take a picture. Makes no sense as that is pretty common technology. Otherwise looks like it could have been a nice app. And please, if I am just missing the voice command setting, please let me know.
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 did not help with my Galaxy S5. I needed an app that keeps recording through a 4 hour show. Most phones stop at 3.99 gigs, then start over. Also the transition was not seamless, so every 33 minutes there is a 1 second break in the video, even when trying to piece it together with video editing software. Also you are limited to 9 gigs of video (why not unlimited?). But it still resets at 3.99 gigs. This app didn't do anything better than the stock camera.
IMHO, pretty much the only 0 alternative to whatever camera app your Android phone came with. I use it to, for example, record UHD Videos at significantly higher bit rate than the camera app that came with my phone lets me. For pictures, Open Camera will let you adjust parameters such as exposure duration and many others if you want to do so. Try it!
I just downloaded the app, and to be honest, it is not giving me the reason to continue using it. The only thing that I benefit from it is that I am able to use my wireless microphone, unlike my normal phone camera. The camera quality is good as well, but has a lot of complications. Firstly, I cannot make a video with this app. My phone keeps malfunctioning anytime I want to take a video, which is not fair. Please I need this to be rectified very soon.
Over all I like this app. I find it easier to use than the stock app that came on my phone. So far my only complaint is that the photos are saved to a folder called OpenCamera, so other apps don't always find them. Changing the save location is rather cumbersome as you have to type in the location of where you want to save your photos rather than just navigating to the folder and selecting it. Other than that .. I am liking it.
This is a great Camera app. I mostly use this to capture (60fps) videos on my Google Pixel 3 which won't let me record 60fps videos by default but the stability is not good. I tried the software stabilization of this app, at first it worked fine but suddenly the stability became very bad. I hope you will fix that.
My Pixel 7 A is Very Very Very Hot while using this App , nothing else Running no other Apps are on .Can you have look in to whats cause this Heating Up it's on the back of my phone ,& the sides I'm thinking it's CPU usage ? don't get me wrong that's the only downside to this App had a few days only . every time it happens .I like the App on how it looks layout design & the manual Controls .can you let me know what's happening thanks 👍 PS I ca. only give three ⭐⭐⭐ stars, IE HEAT PROBLEMS
I loved this app when I first downloaded it, I enjoy taking before and after photos and it helps me line up the angle. But now, the last time I used it was in May, and now that it is July and I'm trying to use it again it won't let me open my gallery it is still stalled on the photo from May and I can only swipe one photo at a time. that means I have to swipe through hundreds of photos since May to get to the current one I'm trying to work with. Clearing the cache didn't help.
This is a very good camera app in almost every respect. My only complaint is that there is a horrible sharpness filter that gets applied when taking zoomed in pictures. The image preview actually looks great, then when I take the photo and look at it, that sharpness filter makes everything look crunchy and fake. A simple setting to turn off this behavior would be amazing.
Fantastic. Been using it for several years. The advantage is full control over the hardware's feature-set, from image size, to resolution, to quality (on lossy-formats, like *.jpg), and so forth. Unlike the default app on my Samsung, which fails to offer control on common settings (on my phone, you know, the one I paid for!). Open Camera is the answer.
Love it! Put on my Stylo 6. Just what I wanted. Control over my camera for taking times pictures. Offers so many features to set it up the way you want it for exposures, times, etc. I honestly do not see where it pops up ads yet. IF it does I really do not care. Worth it. Went thru a number of apps, deleted all of them. Kept this. May not do what some people want but does exactly what I want.
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.
IMHO, pretty much the only 0 alternative to whatever camera app your Android phone came with. I use it to, for example, record UHD Videos at significantly higher bit rate than the camera app that came with my phone lets me. For pictures, Open Camera will let you adjust parameters such as exposure duration and many others if you want to do so. Try it!
This is a great Camera app. I mostly use this to capture (60fps) videos on my Google Pixel 3 which won't let me record 60fps videos by default but the stability is not good. I tried the software stabilization of this app, at first it worked fine but suddenly the stability became very bad. I hope you will fix that.
Easy to use and works well with USB mics which is important to me. Update: Unfortunately, there is no support for adjusting the mic gain in the application. This hadn't been a problem for me, but more recently I've found that the gain seems to vary, my recordings with Open Camera are not always at the same level, despite everything else being the same. I also had a recording that was *way* too low and the audio was barely salvageable. Still a great application for what it does (and it's free!) but I need more mic control so I'll probably look at Filmic or something else (which will not be free.)
It used to be ahead of the curve, but the default photo app has caught up. It's still mega useful for the screen always staying on at full brightness, something I can't believe the default app won't do. Open Cam could do without many of its settings, which don't seem to make a difference, and are organized in a way I don't understand. Please consider focusing development on the photography experience itself. The "scenes" are a great start - Right now they're far too subtle. Please go hog wild!
Over all I like this app. I find it easier to use than the stock app that came on my phone. So far my only complaint is that the photos are saved to a folder called OpenCamera, so other apps don't always find them. Changing the save location is rather cumbersome as you have to type in the location of where you want to save your photos rather than just navigating to the folder and selecting it. Other than that .. I am liking it.
This is a very good camera app in almost every respect. My only complaint is that there is a horrible sharpness filter that gets applied when taking zoomed in pictures. The image preview actually looks great, then when I take the photo and look at it, that sharpness filter makes everything look crunchy and fake. A simple setting to turn off this behavior would be amazing.
First let me say this a very full featured app which for the most part, works excellent. I have been using it for a long time. However, be aware, it will "not work with a Bluetooth Remote Shutter device" which I depend on a lot. The remote will start the video but within ½ to 2 minutes the camera will just stop recording. I have tried 3 different phones and 4 different shutter devices and it happens every time with all of them. It has never happened once with any of the stock camera apps.
I got an external mic and this app works with it. I recorded 2 videos. Everything was working fine at first. But lately whenever I get done with a video, the app freezes and crashes, the video doesn't get saved. Whenever you record, it's a roll of the dice whether it will actually save the video or freeze once you stop recording. Its not reliable. If it weren't for that, it would be perfect.
Most of the functionality of this app relies on what the camera can do and that can be disappointing in its own right. However, there are two issues where the app falls short: One is the shutter time limitation of 0.6 s - far too short for high quality night time photography. The other is that when the camera is held upside down (which I have to do to attach it to a gimbal) the "right handed" menu is on the left (as is the left-handed menu). Not good. Also interval shooting is quite inaccurate.
My Pixel 7 A is Very Very Very Hot while using this App , nothing else Running no other Apps are on .Can you have look in to whats cause this Heating Up it's on the back of my phone ,& the sides I'm thinking it's CPU usage ? don't get me wrong that's the only downside to this App had a few days only . every time it happens .I like the App on how it looks layout design & the manual Controls .can you let me know what's happening thanks 👍 PS I ca. only give three ⭐⭐⭐ stars, IE HEAT PROBLEMS
I loved this app when I first downloaded it, I enjoy taking before and after photos and it helps me line up the angle. But now, the last time I used it was in May, and now that it is July and I'm trying to use it again it won't let me open my gallery it is still stalled on the photo from May and I can only swipe one photo at a time. that means I have to swipe through hundreds of photos since May to get to the current one I'm trying to work with. Clearing the cache didn't help.
Gotta go 2 stars because of a glaring omission. There is no simple voice command that I can find. Oddly enough, you can use voice command to set the timer, but not to take a picture. Like, you can't just point the camera and say "shoot" or whatever magic word and have it take a picture. Makes no sense as that is pretty common technology. Otherwise looks like it could have been a nice app. And please, if I am just missing the voice command setting, please let me know.
It did not help with my Galaxy S5. I needed an app that keeps recording through a 4 hour show. Most phones stop at 3.99 gigs, then start over. Also the transition was not seamless, so every 33 minutes there is a 1 second break in the video, even when trying to piece it together with video editing software. Also you are limited to 9 gigs of video (why not unlimited?). But it still resets at 3.99 gigs. This app didn't do anything better than the stock camera.
I just downloaded the app, and to be honest, it is not giving me the reason to continue using it. The only thing that I benefit from it is that I am able to use my wireless microphone, unlike my normal phone camera. The camera quality is good as well, but has a lot of complications. Firstly, I cannot make a video with this app. My phone keeps malfunctioning anytime I want to take a video, which is not fair. Please I need this to be rectified very soon.
Easy to use and works well with USB mics which is important to me. Update: Unfortunately, there is no support for adjusting the mic gain in the application. This hadn't been a problem for me, but more recently I've found that the gain seems to vary, my recordings with Open Camera are not always at the same level, despite everything else being the same. I also had a recording that was *way* too low and the audio was barely salvageable. Still a great application for what it does (and it's free!) but I need more mic control so I'll probably look at Filmic or something else (which will not be free.)
It used to be ahead of the curve, but the default photo app has caught up. It's still mega useful for the screen always staying on at full brightness, something I can't believe the default app won't do. Open Cam could do without many of its settings, which don't seem to make a difference, and are organized in a way I don't understand. Please consider focusing development on the photography experience itself. The "scenes" are a great start - Right now they're far too subtle. Please go hog wild!
First let me say this a very full featured app which for the most part, works excellent. I have been using it for a long time. However, be aware, it will "not work with a Bluetooth Remote Shutter device" which I depend on a lot. The remote will start the video but within ½ to 2 minutes the camera will just stop recording. I have tried 3 different phones and 4 different shutter devices and it happens every time with all of them. It has never happened once with any of the stock camera apps.
Fantastic. Been using it for several years. The advantage is full control over the hardware's feature-set, from image size, to resolution, to quality (on lossy-formats, like *.jpg), and so forth. Unlike the default app on my Samsung, which fails to offer control on common settings (on my phone, you know, the one I paid for!). Open Camera is the answer.
I got an external mic and this app works with it. I recorded 2 videos. Everything was working fine at first. But lately whenever I get done with a video, the app freezes and crashes, the video doesn't get saved. Whenever you record, it's a roll of the dice whether it will actually save the video or freeze once you stop recording. Its not reliable. If it weren't for that, it would be perfect.
Love it! Put on my Stylo 6. Just what I wanted. Control over my camera for taking times pictures. Offers so many features to set it up the way you want it for exposures, times, etc. I honestly do not see where it pops up ads yet. IF it does I really do not care. Worth it. Went thru a number of apps, deleted all of them. Kept this. May not do what some people want but does exactly what I want.
Gotta go 2 stars because of a glaring omission. There is no simple voice command that I can find. Oddly enough, you can use voice command to set the timer, but not to take a picture. Like, you can't just point the camera and say "shoot" or whatever magic word and have it take a picture. Makes no sense as that is pretty common technology. Otherwise looks like it could have been a nice app. And please, if I am just missing the voice command setting, please let me know.
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.
Most of the functionality of this app relies on what the camera can do and that can be disappointing in its own right. However, there are two issues where the app falls short: One is the shutter time limitation of 0.6 s - far too short for high quality night time photography. The other is that when the camera is held upside down (which I have to do to attach it to a gimbal) the "right handed" menu is on the left (as is the left-handed menu). Not good. Also interval shooting is quite inaccurate.
IMHO, pretty much the only 0 alternative to whatever camera app your Android phone came with. I use it to, for example, record UHD Videos at significantly higher bit rate than the camera app that came with my phone lets me. For pictures, Open Camera will let you adjust parameters such as exposure duration and many others if you want to do so. Try it!
I just downloaded the app, and to be honest, it is not giving me the reason to continue using it. The only thing that I benefit from it is that I am able to use my wireless microphone, unlike my normal phone camera. The camera quality is good as well, but has a lot of complications. Firstly, I cannot make a video with this app. My phone keeps malfunctioning anytime I want to take a video, which is not fair. Please I need this to be rectified very soon.
Over all I like this app. I find it easier to use than the stock app that came on my phone. So far my only complaint is that the photos are saved to a folder called OpenCamera, so other apps don't always find them. Changing the save location is rather cumbersome as you have to type in the location of where you want to save your photos rather than just navigating to the folder and selecting it. Other than that .. I am liking it.
This is a great Camera app. I mostly use this to capture (60fps) videos on my Google Pixel 3 which won't let me record 60fps videos by default but the stability is not good. I tried the software stabilization of this app, at first it worked fine but suddenly the stability became very bad. I hope you will fix that.
My Pixel 7 A is Very Very Very Hot while using this App , nothing else Running no other Apps are on .Can you have look in to whats cause this Heating Up it's on the back of my phone ,& the sides I'm thinking it's CPU usage ? don't get me wrong that's the only downside to this App had a few days only . every time it happens .I like the App on how it looks layout design & the manual Controls .can you let me know what's happening thanks 👍 PS I ca. only give three ⭐⭐⭐ stars, IE HEAT PROBLEMS
I loved this app when I first downloaded it, I enjoy taking before and after photos and it helps me line up the angle. But now, the last time I used it was in May, and now that it is July and I'm trying to use it again it won't let me open my gallery it is still stalled on the photo from May and I can only swipe one photo at a time. that means I have to swipe through hundreds of photos since May to get to the current one I'm trying to work with. Clearing the cache didn't help.
This is a very good camera app in almost every respect. My only complaint is that there is a horrible sharpness filter that gets applied when taking zoomed in pictures. The image preview actually looks great, then when I take the photo and look at it, that sharpness filter makes everything look crunchy and fake. A simple setting to turn off this behavior would be amazing.
It did not help with my Galaxy S5. I needed an app that keeps recording through a 4 hour show. Most phones stop at 3.99 gigs, then start over. Also the transition was not seamless, so every 33 minutes there is a 1 second break in the video, even when trying to piece it together with video editing software. Also you are limited to 9 gigs of video (why not unlimited?). But it still resets at 3.99 gigs. This app didn't do anything better than the stock camera.
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