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Camera app with controllable HDR?

Started Mar 12, 2021 | Discussions
CAcreeks
CAcreeks Forum Pro • Posts: 18,924
Camera app with controllable HDR?

In the Fuji X forum, someone mentioned Gcam and referenced this video.

https://youtu.be/A_0yp_1WkWY

The "Camera" app on my Motorola phone doesn't do that.

Is such a camera app available for download, or does it run only on Pixel phones? I searched for "Gcam" on the phone store, but everything seemed unrelated.

Cariboo Contributing Member • Posts: 774
Re: Camera app with controllable HDR?
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CAcreeks wrote:

In the Fuji X forum, someone mentioned Gcam and referenced this video.

https://youtu.be/A_0yp_1WkWY

The "Camera" app on my Motorola phone doesn't do that.

Is such a camera app available for download, or does it run only on Pixel phones? I searched for "Gcam" on the phone store, but everything seemed unrelated.

Search for the HedgeCam app. Small App Big Features. Open HedgeCam Settings, choose or click every menu item to drill down for more and more settings,

eg: HedgeCam Settings>HDR>Adjust Levels>Choose 1 of 4 options.

For GCam ports search: f.celsoazevedo.com/file/gcamera or XDA Forums. Lots of ports per camera mfg and many are continually in development.

Due to the extreme Bloat of GCam as on the Pixel, I avoided that as the ports are usually MUCH smaller and customized and tested for different mfgs. But the free HedgeCam app does all I need, though I don't bother with night images with a tiny sensor "smart"phone other than as a record / snapshot.

OpenCamera app might also do this if you drill down through all the settings. I haven't looked at it for a while.

CAcreeks
OP CAcreeks Forum Pro • Posts: 18,924
Re: Camera app with controllable HDR?

Cariboo wrote:

Search for the HedgeCam app. Small App Big Features. Open HedgeCam Settings, choose or click every menu item to drill down for more and more settings,

eg: HedgeCam Settings>HDR>Adjust Levels>Choose 1 of 4 options.

For GCam ports search: f.celsoazevedo.com/file/gcamera or XDA Forums. Lots of ports per camera mfg and many are continually in development.

Due to the extreme Bloat of GCam as on the Pixel, I avoided that as the ports are usually MUCH smaller and customized and tested for different mfgs. But the free HedgeCam app does all I need, though I don't bother with night images with a tiny sensor "smart"phone other than as a record / snapshot.

OpenCamera app might also do this if you drill down through all the settings. I haven't looked at it for a while.

Thank you, Cariboo.

A helpful Fuji X forum participant sent me this link for my Moto One phone and others.

I found HedgeCam 2 and Open Camera (Mark Harman) in the Android store, but apparently a Gcam (often beta) must be downloaded from a separate website. Open Camera has a 4.1 rating, so I installed it. I like it! It's less fiddly than the standard Android camera. My phone allowed me to set Camera 2 API.

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