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Recommendation: Open Camera

Started Mar 20, 2021 | Discussions
CAcreeks
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Recommendation: Open Camera

The user interface is far easier to use than the Camera that came with my Android phone. Touch-selectable focus point works well, as does macro mode, and menu selectable continuous focus adjusts quickly

Open Camera v1.48.3 vs Camera 2

Mostly it's harder to do the wrong thing by pressing an edge of the phone screen. The regular Camera 2 seems really fiddly. I'm always getting it into the wrong mode when all I want to do is take a photo. Also, Open Camera's feature set is sensible and easily navigated.

Raw (DNG) is supported but results are worse than DRO (dynamic range optimization), possibly because Snapseed lacks noise reduction, and/or because DRO is multi-shot so noise gets averaged out.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en_GB&id=net.sourceforge.opencamera

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