Version 1.48.1

Version 1.48.1 is released! This adds:

• For devices with multiple front/back cameras, a new icon will appear. In older versions of Open Camera, there was a single icon to cycle through all cameras. Now, the existing icon switches between the first front and back camera; the new icon will instead cycle between the multiple front or back cameras. If you prefer the old behaviour, then disable Settings/On screen GUI/"Multiple cameras icon". Note that many devices do not expose their extra cameras to third party applications, and there's nothing I can do about this - this update is just a user interface change.
• Current camera ID now displayed on-screen (next to date/time) for devices with multiple front/back cameras. This can be disabled under Settings/Camera preview/"Show camera ID". Popup info text also displays if camera is ultra-wide, when using Camera2 API.
• Added aperture control (on popup menu), for devices that support this. (Camera2 API only.)
• Flash on and torch now supported for manual ISO/exposure.
• Auto-level feature now shows on-screen rectangle to show the frame of the resultant photo.
• On devices with on-screen navigation buttons, camera preview can now display under these buttons if required for wide aspect ratio (requires Android 5+).
• New immersive mode option to hide navigation buttons only when in immersive mode; existing option for hiding navigation buttons now renamed to say "dim".
• Option to specify REC709 or sRGB profile for video recording.
• New custom gamma profile option for video recording.
• New video profiles JTVideo, JTLog and JTLog2 (thanks to JT Haapala).
• Improvements for log profiles for video recording. Please note that this means the behaviour of these profiles has changed!
• New option to control the alpha value for ghost image option.
• More zebra stripe values 93-99%. Options to control zebra stripe colours.
• Option for storing device's current yaw/pitch/roll in Exif user comment for photos (thanks to Joshua).
• New option Settings/More camera controls/"Allow long press actions" to disable long press actions.
• HDR and NR photo modes now limited to maximum resolution of 22 megapixels (to avoid risk of running out of memory on devices with large camera resolutions).
• Fixes for when video restarts for maximum filesize (for Android 8+ seamless restart) - issue that only the last file showed up in gallery applications.
• Other improvements and bug fixes.

See history for a full changelog.

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much for this update! Also, I would like to know whether the latest version supports saving images in HEIF format. Keep up the great work. This is a greatest camera app I have ever used with talkback screen reader. Thank you.

[Mark]

Thanks, see https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/tickets/664/ for some discussion on HEIF.

[Anonymous]

Also, kindly add support for announcement of device level angle when device is level / nearly level with talkback screen reader. It is difficult to see the Angle highlight color when device is level for me. Thank you once again.

[Mark]

I've added this to my TODO.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately the gallery button doesnt work anymore on my LG G5 (Android 7.1.2, LinageOS 17.1). Resetting the default action for system gallery app and custom gallery app. (com.simplemobiletools.gallery.pro) did not solve it.

[Mark]

Thanks for the info. Does a thumbnail for the most recent image show in the button with the latest version?

[Anonymous]

Yes. The latest pic does appear on the button.
Deleting cache and data and then adjusting settings back to my needs helped.
Importing previously exported settings caused same effect of non-working gallery button, btw.

[Anonymous]

here is the catch: for me the gallery button only works if the layout is set to 'icons on top'. neither right- nor left-handed layout works.

[Anonymous]

any information on what exactly is thr JTlog formats and how does gamma differ from log in general?

[Anonymous]

I have the same question about the JT* profiles... Is there some kind of LUT for basic conversion to something video editing software directly handles like HLG / 709 / PQ or definition of them anywhere on the Internet? I only find garbage searching and log profiles are more useful with at least a basic LUT so that's something to start with when grading. I can only guess from the names that they're clones of S-Log, C-Log, or whatever camera JT Haapla who also can't be found online was wanting to match... but for example in Sony cameras usually you'd select the gamut as well so there's a known starting point like S-Log3.S-Gamut or S-Log3.Cine

Same for the log profiles really... why not just standard HLG?

I don't even do much video but if I needed to and didn't have my real camera, OpenCamera is really useful since it allows recording at least ~150Mbps (haven't pushed higher) 4k h.265 video on my phone where Samsung camera defaults to ~50Mbps (but will save HDR10 w/ HDR10+ metadata directly)