Spotlight: Open Camera : an alternative camera app for your smartphone

Based on materials from phonearena.com

If you can't imagine life without photographing from your mobile device, this little note is for you. Would you like to try a new camera app? Maybe this is exactly what you were missing. Open Camera is free and also belongs to open-source applications. You may not find a great interface here, but that is not the point. Open Camera can offer you some tricks related to the process of photographing, for example, auto stabilization, which brings frames to close to ideal level, no matter what conditions you shoot. In terms of camera modes and settings, there is flash, flashlight, focus, scenes, color effects, white balance, ISO, exposure, exposure lock and face detection.

Open Camera

Video recording is, of course, provided here, resolution up to 1080p, plus the ability to set portrait or landscape orientation. There are also features such as Timer with optional voice counting, auto-repeat mode, UI optimization for left- and right-handed users, customizable volume keys, GPS geotagging, external microphone support – enough to claim to be a great app. Open Camera has experimental support for the Android 5 Camera 2 API with manual adjustments such as focal length, manual ISO and exposure.

Despite such a wealth of features, Open Camera is free and ad-free. It cannot be promised that absolutely all Android devices will support absolutely all functions, but the application can certainly be recommended to owners of mid-range and budget devices who lack the capabilities of the default camera applications and who want to be able to squeeze everything out of the sensor. Regular users will love filters, effects, and other ways to enhance their pictures.

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Perhaps some of you have already used this application? What do you think?

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