Activity for Open Camera

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    I found a solution, when I turned EIS off, the video got so much brighter.

  • Anonymous posted a comment on ticket #1266

    Same poster again. I noticed that with datetime stamp enabled the file size becomes very reasonable.

  • thomasa88 thomasa88 posted a comment on merge request #79

    An alternative could be a button labeled "2" that saves photos in another directory. The original problem I'm trying to solve is to avoid throw away photos filling up my backups and folders of "important" photos.

  • thomasa88 thomasa88 posted a comment on merge request #79

    Screenshot

  • thomasa88 thomasa88 created merge request #79 on Code

    Draft: Button to take temporary photos

  • Anonymous posted a comment on a blog post

    Hola sugiero tener la opción de estampar un logo en las fotos

  • Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB) Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB) posted a comment on ticket #1299

    IDK whether I've filed a dedicated ticket for this failure, but DNGs frequently fail to save, now. They are prepended with .pending-, even though they're of approximately expected size.

  • scott danial scott danial posted a comment on discussion Photography

    Open Camera doesn’t currently offer a setting to lock or force a fixed zoom level across reconnects, so when the Bluetooth remote reconnects the zoom can reset to 1×. The most reliable workaround is to use digital zoom via the on-screen control just before recording or switch to a camera profile where zoom is less likely to reset. You can also report this as a feature request or bug to the Open Camera developer, as it’s a known limitation rather than a user setting.

  • Anonymous posted a comment on ticket #1321

    Here I am again. Not sure, but it looks like this problem sorted itself out. I went to Settings -> Apps -> Gallary -> Set defaults -> Cleared defaults Then went back to Open Camera, selected Google Photos as default gallery app again I tried taking still photos and recording videos and didn't notice that Open Camera changes the deafult gallery app this time Even after I restarted my phone, it still works as expected - opens Google Photos as default gallery. I believe you can close this ticket. Issue...

  • Anonymous created ticket #1321

    Gallery app is reset when saving video recording - always using Samsung Gallery instead of Google Photos

  • Oliver Kluge Oliver Kluge created ticket #1320

    Feature request: Improve visibilty of battery power indicator

  • Anonymous created ticket #1319

    Pick the default gallery app doesn't show installed gallery app

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    still unavailable?

  • Oliver Kluge Oliver Kluge posted a comment on ticket #1316

    Ok, I have now reactivated the standard Camera app. It also shuts down external power input completely. This is just as annoying, because if you know you are low on the battery and plug in a powerbank, it will immediately stop recharging the moment you start either camera app. Meaning, if you start to take video with the knowledge, that you plugged in your powerbank in time, the phone will continue to drain the battery until it forcibly shuts down everything :-(

  • Anonymous posted a comment on ticket #1318

    Remark to that: If the phone makes a cold boot, the remaining file oftentimes is very large and bears the termination .mp3, but is unplayable. The size indicates to me that lots of frames have been store in there, so I deem a sanitization should be possible. So far I haven't had the time to try one of the many "MPEG doctor" programs out there, but I gues as long as at leaste one i-frame and a couple of p- and b-frames survive, it must be feasible, but I do not know the manner in which Open Camera...

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    Having preset zoom buttons would be great. I use the camera for my work (taking pics of faces). I use same zoom (3x for all my face pics). Would be much easier to directly select zoom level and not from a slider. +I think we got somewhat used to having 1x 2x 3x... buttons...

  • Oliver Kluge Oliver Kluge posted a comment on ticket #1316

    Hm, at the moment there is only the standard Android app, which I will have to reactivate. I do not know others?

  • Mark Mark posted a comment on ticket #1315

    Thanks for the report. I don't have a Pixel Fold to test this, although looks like this is now being tracked as a device issue ( https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/471257330 ).

  • Mark Mark posted a comment on ticket #1316

    Does this happen with any other camera apps?

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    That works for me, with OpenCamera as default camera activity app, perfect. Didn't expect this setting to be in the app itself. Thanks for working on this great camera app.

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    Will this some day be added? there is a forked version but is old

  • Emmanuel Gléveau Emmanuel Gléveau modified a comment on discussion General Discussion

    HI mark, thanks for your amazing new version. 1.55 is really the best one. It's now possible to slide from 0.6x to 10x on my s23 ultra. Which i could not find on on gcam, for instance. Somehow, i decided to go a bit further to make it even more interesting for my own purpose. Gemini was a great help, and i can say it has better features than the stock camera now when it's for the video. So the main change was here that i added a digital zoom on the 10x. I noticed that i could not shoot in 60 fps....

  • Emmanuel Gléveau Emmanuel Gléveau posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    HI mark, thanks for your amazing new version. 1.55 is really the best one. It's now possible to commute from 0.6x to 10x on my s23 ultra. Which i could not find on on gcam, for instance. Somehow, i decided to go a bit further to make it even more interesting for my own purpose. Gemini was a great help, and i can say it has better features than the stock camera now when it's for the video. So the main change was here that i added a digital zoom on the 10x. I noticed that i could not shoot in 60 fps....

  • Oliver Kluge Oliver Kluge modified a comment on ticket #1316

    Another remark: I have double checked with an ampere meter in the USB connection to my external battery (or charger, doesn't matter). Really, the current drops from 700+ mA to 0.0 mA the very moment Open Camera starts... But when the current flows again (either by terminating Open Camera or entering it's config menu) there is no acoustic from Android that the battery is getting charged again. This behaviour is reproducible.

  • Oliver Kluge Oliver Kluge modified a comment on ticket #1316

    Another remark: I have double checked with an ampere meter in the USB connection to my external battery (or charger, doesn't matter). Really, the current drops from 700+ mA to 0.0 mA the very moment Open Camera starts...

  • Oliver Kluge Oliver Kluge posted a comment on ticket #1316

    Another remark: I have double checked with an ampere meter in the USB connection to my external battery (or charger, doesn't matter). Really, the current drops from 700+ mA to 0.0 the very moment Open Camera starts...

  • Oliver Kluge Oliver Kluge posted a comment on ticket #1316

    Another observation: Once Open Camera is up, the external battery is off. But when I enter the settings menu of Open Camera, external power comes up again, only to go off again when I leave the config menu.

  • Oliver Kluge Oliver Kluge posted a comment on ticket #1317

    I have just tried the "Camcorder" source setting. To my surprise this does record from the Bluetooth headset... So maybe the label is just misleading. Another remark: Open Camera's sound recording includes a very low but markable high frequency hum, which Audio recorder does not record. As I do not use any filtering in Audio Recorder I guess this is some artifact from Open Camera?

  • Oliver Kluge Oliver Kluge created ticket #1318

    Feature request: Use more robust temp file format or add sanitize function

  • Oliver Kluge Oliver Kluge created ticket #1317

    Feature request: Record sound from Bluetooth device

  • Oliver Kluge Oliver Kluge created ticket #1316

    Open Camera shuts off external power to a Fairphone 2

  • Rather not say Rather not say posted a comment on discussion Q&A

    While manually calibrating settings for maximum bitrate for maximum utility best quality I notice the maximum bitrate and framerate seem to differ between apps SourceForge, F-Droid, and Google. Do the differing app release builds have anything to do with this? Why is the maximum bitrate lowering from time to time?

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Q&A

    me again again, I tested it in motion cam that allows up to 20 in white numbers, and 30 in yellow ones, and it was still focusing nearer and nearer, but not as much as default samsung app. I tested writing my own app in android studio with customizable limit and found out the focus was accepting values up to 50 (2cm focus). i think its clear relying on min/max values reported by system/api cant be trusted.

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Q&A

    While manually benchmarking video recording to look for maximum utility best quality I notice the maximum bitrate and framerate seem to differ between apps SourceForge, F-Droid, and Google. Do the differing app release builds have anything to do with this? Why is the maximum bitrate lowering from time to time?

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Q&A

    maybe not

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    Olá, O meu smartphone é um Samsung A14 e o slide de ISO quando coloco para Manual a tela fica escura.

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Q&A

    Me again, I just found out that even other camera apps have the same problem: Autofocus able to focus really near, but manual focus stops wayy further. Interesting that the native camera app has manual focus slider able to go to true limit, would be cool if we could overide the limits reported from API to bruteforce send even shorter focus values, maybe it would work.?

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Q&A

    My S24 Ultra can focus on like 2 cm. Whats interesting is even opencamera can focus that close, but once I switch to focus bracketing, the minimum focus distance becomes 10 cm and I cant focus any closer. Switching to standard mode allows me to again focus way closer. Pretty sad about this, I was looking to focus stack macro photos, seems im outa luck..

  • Anonymous created ticket #1315

    Camera preview rotates after lens change when zooming

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    if you want to have more shots but still use the native app, get amother phone and put a ten secnd loop on of you saying thr word "shoot". your camera will keep snapping away

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    Hello Sir / Madam, i tried to use your open source OpenCamera app for my mobile, But the main feature i was looking for is missing in your app. Please add the Date and Time Stamp feature for videos. ** i want time and date watermark to appear on the videos i capture.** Regards

  • Johann Petrak Johann Petrak posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    Currently the option to choose which microphone to use is buried deeply in the settings, it would be useful to have some way to do this more quickly. Since audio recordings with the built-in microphone and automatic gain control are unusable,using an external microphone attached via USB or Bluetooth may help, but I could not find any way to specifically choose a microphone from USB a Bluetooth, just a generic "external". How does this then select a specific microphone? What if several are attached...

  • Johann Petrak Johann Petrak posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    Found this while desperately searching Google for how to avoid AGC in video recordings. I think it is possible to bypass AGC at least on most devices, and I think a number of audio-recording apps can do this. So it would sure be fantastic if this could be added to Open Camera as well. It is simply impossible to take good music videos, they all sound terrible because of AGC.

  • Anonymous posted a comment on ticket #1266

    I posted the above. Have just tried v1.55 on my trusty Galaxy Note 4 on Android 11 and couldn't reproduce the issue.

  • Anonymous posted a comment on ticket #1266

    Came here to report the same issue. When on my Moto G84 I take a 1440x1080 photo at 50 quality, I get size > 2mb. When I copy it to PC and resave in FastStone Image Viewer also at 50, I get about 1/10 of the original size. Open Camera v1.55 Code: 93 Package: net.sourceforge.opencamera Android API version: 35 Device manufacturer: motorola Device model: moto g84 5G Display size: 1080x2154 Current camera ID: 0 No. of cameras: 2 Multi-camera?: false Camera API: Camera Camera orientation: 90 Photo mode:...

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    Hi, using this app because my Moto G86 power stock app video recording audio is very poor. Seems a lot better on here. Is there any way to access the 0.5x zoom on either the camera or video? Also I don't like the zoom slider being on the left side, since it feels hard to reach with having to stretch my thumb, is there a way to move it to the centre or right side of the screen? I find the settings a bit hard to navigate and a search feature would help.

  • Anonymous created ticket #1314

    More understandable and translated names for photo-modes

  • Anonymous posted a comment on ticket #963

    This needs support for Android's camera API - I could do it like WebP (where Open Camera converts the JPEG from the camera driver), This would be fine to do it same fashion as webp. The file size and quality improvement over both jpg and webp is very welcome. Huge time saver to instead of constantly syncing jpg files each with 10 MB to PC and converting it to avif there ... where it gets down to just 500kb avif file.

  • Mine18 Mine18 posted a comment on ticket #963

    I love AVIF for how small images can be, it being added would be incredible! especially with the option to choose the aom or svt software encoders

  • Anonymous created ticket #1313

    Shutter sound location

  • Anonymous posted a comment on ticket #1296

    You could always try using this library https://github.com/jiangdongguo/AndroidUSBCamera

  • Mark Mark modified ticket #1311

    save gps altitude in exif as float not integer

  • Mark Mark posted a comment on ticket #1311

    This is part of Android as far as I can tell - as in the device saves the GPS exif information. Even if I wrote my own code to save the exif information, the same issue applies to Android's location API: I confirmed that this is also being rounded to an integer (as can be seen with Open Camera's photo stamp option). Although Location.getAltitude() returns a "double", I see it rounded to an integer on my device.

  • Anonymous created ticket #1312

    FPS Reverts on Video Record

  • Anonymous created ticket #1311

    save gps altitude in exif as float not integer

  • Drew McPherson Drew McPherson posted a comment on discussion Q&A

    I have found the same problem on a Blackview Shark6, but only if the zoom is set to maximum 9.99x. If I reduce the zoom level it works fine.

  • Anonymous posted a comment on ticket #1301

    This feature is about recording a video or is it about the live preview? I'd really love to disable the mirroring in the live preview.

  • Anonymous created ticket #1310

    OC 1.55 drains battery when in foreground

  • Anonymous created ticket #1309

    Color-code the whole GPS on screen icon instead of just the tiny dot

  • Anonymous posted a comment on ticket #1196

    I agree with Mark, it would be useful to have GPSHPositioningError in EXIF - it is available, it is what Open Camera uses for its color coding of the on-screen GPS accuracy dot, seems a minor thing to add it to the EXIF.

  • Sand sand Sand sand posted a comment on discussion Q&A

    I have bought an underwater phone case with bluetooth buttons. The buttons connects as a bluetooth keyboard. I can use the shutter (Enter) and Zoom (volume up and down). But there are also a button for switching camera (that emulates key "3") and start video recording (that emulates key "4"). I need an app that can be remote controlled by numeric keypad. OpenCamera settings documentation writes about Settings Manager having an entry with name "Remote control" which supports numeric keypad. But this...

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    Hello, please add as option, if you can, live total EV number near ISO and shutter speed values. It can be calculated by equation attached as picture for this message (more info you can find searching "omni exposure calculator" in Google, first link). Also, make option for quick access for EV compensation - direct slider at the edge of the screen (not at center of image) for example. So that change of EV comp is possible with a single touch and drag. Thank you very much for this great app!

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    hi is it possible to add timestamp and Geotag on Videos directly instead of saving it as subtitles. also is it possible to add location apart from cordinates?? thank u for this amazing app..

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    My S20fe doesnt show any other lenses than UW and Main, even using "com.sec" package, what are you guys doing

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    I'm seeing a similar problem with that Pixel 10 (standard edition) telephoto lens. The stock camera app auto-switches camera at 8x zoom, but Open Camera does not.

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    First of all, I would like to thank you for making the best camera app on Android. I really like the features where you can turn off phone camera processing so I can make more natural images without processing from the camera. I also like the time stamp feature, but it's a shame that the colors of the timestamp are so few and don't match, I've opted for orange like on my old digicam. I'll send you an example below. from @sainarouu /Instagram And also i suggest a feature to change the font. Once again...

  • Anonymous created ticket #1308

    "Show RAW icon" setting enabled but icon doesn't appear in GUI when taking photos

  • dawnFF dawnFF posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    I am requesting that Open Camera integrate support for capturing photos and videos directly from Meta Wearables, specifically the Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses (Gen 1/2) and similar devices, leveraging the official Meta Wearables Device Access Toolkit. This integration would allow meta Ray-Ban users to utilize the superior controls, processing, and open-source nature of Open Camera to manage the visual media captured by their smart glasses, bypassing the limitations of the proprietary companion app for...

  • Parker Reed Parker Reed modified a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    Currently only 0 or 180 are available. I cannot find any camera application that lets me adjust the preview by 90 or 270. Would love this as a feature. Thanks, -Parker Reed

  • Parker Reed Parker Reed posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    Currently only 0 or 180 are available. I cannot find any camera application that let's me adjust the preview by 90 or 270. Would love this as a feature. Thanks, -Parker Reed

  • rommert rommert modified a comment on discussion Q&A

    I bought the Sony Xperia 10 VII (2025). Android 16 is installed. In Opencamera I also must choose lower resolutions (see attachment) not matching the 50MP specified. I also can't choose in Opencamera my preferred 3:2 ratio. Should It in my case be wise to use the Sony App instead?

  • rommert rommert modified a comment on discussion Q&A

    I bought the Sony Xperia 10 VII (2025). Android 16 is installed. In Opencamera I also must choose lower resolutions not matching the 50MP specified. I also can't choose in Opencamera my preferred 3:2 ratio. Should It in my case be wise to use the Sony App instead?

  • rommert rommert posted a comment on discussion Q&A

    I bought the Sony Xperia 10 VII (2025). In Opencamera I also can choose al lower resolution not matching the 50MP specified. I also can't choose in Opencamera my preferred 3:2 ratio. Should It in my case be wise to use the Sony App instead?

  • Anonymous created ticket #1307

    Feature request: Add keyboard shortcut support to insert timestamped markers during video recording

  • Anonymous created ticket #1306

    +/- buttons for exposure compensation

  • Mark Mark posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    Can you post an example photo please, where Settings/Photo settings/"Remove device EXIF data" is set to "Remove device Exif data". Also which version of Open Camera is this (see Settings/About)?

  • Mark Mark posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    Changing Settings/On screen GUI/"Immersive mode" to "Hide everything" would remove the on-screen icons. A possible workaround to make completely black might be Settings/Camera preview/"Ghost image" if you have a completely black image to supply, although currently the max opacity you can set to is 80%

  • Mark Mark posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    Hi, make sure Settings/"Camera API" is set to "Camera2 API", then this can be set via Settings/More camera controls/"Shutter sound".

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    Any feedback on this?

  • Mark Mark modified ticket #1076

    Storage Access Framework

  • Mark Mark posted a comment on ticket #1076

    Fixed for the next version - force quitting whilst the SAF dialog is open will mean SAF is turned back off.

  • Anonymous created ticket #1305

    Day of Week

  • betoj betoj posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    Hola, tuve problemas para grabar video. Me daba "Error de Video" probe: - Cambiando carpeta de guardado, bajando resolucion, cambiando de formato de grabaciony sigiuio dando el error. Con la foto no huvo problema anduvo bien. El celular es: Quantum Yolo Plus con Android 13 Saludos. Beto

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

    Download "Camera assistant" from Galaxy store then disable "Auto lens switching " that should work.

  • Anonymous created ticket #1304

    Ois is not getting enabled in vivo t4 ultra

  • Anonymous posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions

    Hello, When taking videos, pressing the Record button causes a beep/chime sound which signifies recording has begun. It happens again when I end recording (using Andriod, moto g stylus). I take too many videos of my sleeping cat, I would love to be able to disable this sound to prevent waking them. If I'm overlooking a way to disable this, my apologies. thank you, Lauren

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