Version 1.36

Version 1.36.2 is released!

• Auto-alignment for HDR images.
• Now supporting Android 7's Quick settings tiles: tiles for photo, video and selfie mode.
• Pause/resume video recording now supported for Android 7 (yes, I know that some camera apps have pause video for older versions - basically Android 7 makes pausing video much easier to do).
• New option to mirror photos for front camera.
• New option to calibrate the level angle (accelerometer).
• New option to display on-screen pitch lines and compass direction lines.
• New option "Video subtitles". This creates a subtitle file (in .SRT format) displaying date and time; and also GPS location and direction if those options are enabled. Most video players should support SRT files, and use them to display the information as subtitles (for Android, MX Player will do this; note that Google Photos does not seem to support subtitles).
• When using Camera2 API, the popup menu now has "ISO M" option to switch straight to manual exposure mode, defaulting to the current ISO value.
• Focus mode is now remembered for video mode.
• Fixed "Loud noise" audio control which wasn't working.
• New option to disable showing the "take photo" button (if you'd rather use other methods - e.g., volume keys, or a hardware shutter button on your device).
• And various other fixes and improvements.

There's also a new photo mode "DRO" (dynamic range optimisation) (available under "Photo mode" on the popup menu - requires Android 5). This applies local contrast enhancement which helps to brighten dark areas. It's similar to HDR in that it's useful for scenes with a wide range of brightness. Advantages of DRO over HDR are: it's faster (though still slower than Standard Photo Mode); it's okay for scenes with movement; it's available for both the Camera2 and old APIs. But HDR will still in general be better at scenes with a high range of brightness values.

The following image shows (top to bottom) Standard, DRO and HDR:

In the above images, both DRO and HDR have higher brightness and increased contrast in the foreground (e.g., the house to the left, and the grass). DRO also shows more detail in the sky compared to Standard, though it's still more overexposed compared to HDR.