I installed on my Pixel 4a but photos not as crisp as stock app. I have quality set to 100% and tried both APIs. File size is slightly higher with Open Camera but the images aren't as sharp and detailed. This shows up particularly when using flash (alternate flash for Camera2 API). Any ideas please?
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2021-06-19
Anyone help please? I am saving at 2,268 x 4,032 pixels, JPEG at 100% quality. Google camera filesize 2,859KB, Opencamera 4,453KB. Photos attached are resized for upload but still show the difference with the more whitewashed, less detailed, Opencamera shot versus Google camera app.
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2021-06-21
Hi, need help. I am not able to record audio using my bluetooth TWS earbuds MPOW Flame Lite. I using Open Camera app on my Realme X2. I am happy with Video settings but It will be great if there is audio settings for bluetooth earbuds. Thanks.
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I'm not sure I'm afraid - posting a new thread may give better visibility in case anyone else has any ideas.
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2021-06-22
Back to my topic regarding the poor picture quality in comparison to google camera app, does this settings about info help with a potential solution please...?
Open Camera v1.48.3
Code: 80
Package: net.sourceforge.opencamera
Android API version: 30
Device manufacturer: Google
Device model: Pixel 4a
Device code-name: sunfish
Device variant: sunfish
Language: en
Standard max heap?: 256
Large max heap?: 512
Display size: 1080x2072
Display metrics: 1080x2072
Current camera ID: 0
No. of cameras: 2
Multi-camera?: false
Camera API: Camera2 (Android L)
Camera orientation: 90
Photo mode: Standard
Preview resolutions: 1920x1080, 1920x960, 1440x1080, 1280x960, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600, 720x480, 640x480, 640x360, 352x288, 320x240, 176x144
Preview resolution: 1920x1080
Photo resolutions: 4032x3024, 4000x3000, 4032x2268, 3840x2160, 4000x2000, 3264x2448, 3200x2400, 3264x1836, 2592x1944, 2688x1512, 2560x1280, 2048x1536, 1920x1440, 1920x1080, 1600x1200, 1920x960, 1440x1080, 1280x960, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600, 720x480, 640x480, 640x360, 352x288, 320x240, 176x144
Photo resolution: 4032x2268
Video qualities: 1, 6_r4000x2000, 6_r3264x1836, 6_r2592x1944, 6_r2688x1512, 6_r2560x1280, 6_r2048x1536, 6_r1920x1440, 6, 5_r1600x1200, 5_r1920x960, 5_r1440x1080, 5_r1280x960, 5, 4_r1024x768, 4_r800x600, 4, 3_r640x480, 3_r640x360, 3, 7, 2
Video resolutions: 3840x2160, 4000x2000, 3264x1836, 2592x1944, 2688x1512, 2560x1280, 2048x1536, 1920x1440, 1920x1080, 1600x1200, 1920x960, 1440x1080, 1280x960, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600, 720x480, 640x480, 640x360, 352x288, 320x240, 176x144
Video quality: 6
Video frame width: 1920
Video frame height: 1080
Video bit rate: 33000000
Video frame rate: 60
Video capture rate: 60.0
Video high speed: false
Video capture rate factor: 1.0
Auto-level?: Available
Auto-level enabled?: false
Face detection?: Available
RAW?: Available
HDR?: Available
Panorama?: Available
Gyro sensors?: Available
Expo?: Available
Expo compensation?: Available
Exposure compensation range: -24 to 24
Manual ISO?: Available
ISO range: 55 to 7111
Manual exposure?: Available
Exposure range: 13611 to 10170373248
Manual WB?: Available
WB temperature: 1000 to 15000
Optical stabilization?: Available
Optical stabilization enabled?: true
Video stabilization?: Available
Video stabilization enabled?: false
Tonemap curve?: Available
Tonemap max curve points: 64
Can disable shutter sound?: Available
Camera view angle: 65.59413 , 38.136196
Flash modes: flash_off, flash_auto, flash_on, flash_torch, flash_red_eye
Focus modes: focus_mode_auto, focus_mode_macro, focus_mode_locked, focus_mode_infinity, focus_mode_manual2, focus_mode_continuous_picture, focus_mode_continuous_video
Color effects: None
Scene modes: auto, action, portrait, landscape, night, night-portrait, theatre, beach, snow, sunset, fireworks, sports, party, candlelight
White balances: auto, manual, incandescent, fluorescent, warm-fluorescent, daylight, cloudy-daylight, twilight, shade
Magnetic accuracy?: -1
Using SAF?: false
Save Location: OpenCamera
Save Location SAF:
Parameters: None
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2021-06-26
Is anyone else using Open Camera on a Pixel 4a smartphone please? I'd really like to get this equalling the quality of the stock app. Any suggestions gratefully received.
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I guess one question is whether Open Camera is able to use Google's HDR+. With the Pixel 1/2, Google said HDR+ was enabled for third party applications (and I think I saw people confirm it works with Open Camera), but this wasn't supported for the Pixel 3a. I haven't been able to find info on the Pixel 4a or 5.
How do other third party camera applications compare?
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2021-07-03
Here is a comparison with Footej Camera 2 which only allows standard JPG quality in the free version. IMHO it compares well, maybe better, with the Google app. And certainly not washed out like the Open Camera image. But I prefer Open Source, so would really like to get Open Camera acheiving the same quality / contrast please.
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2021-08-06
Well, Google HDR pipeline is more optimized for the phone. So there's no way to achieve that with Open Camera without optimizing the pipeline to produce similar output to Google HDR.
I'd personally take hundreds if not thousands of photos with Google HDR (keep the originals) and then optimize the pipeline offline and implement it in Open Camera.
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2021-08-07
"I'd personally take hundreds if not thousands of photos with Google HDR (keep the originals) and then optimize the pipeline offline and implement it in Open Camera."
Ah, so you would personally do. Maybe on Monday all things will appear more crisp for you through the pipeline.
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2021-08-10
No need to be snarky.
People asking for quality improvements need to be aware that there's no settings one might tweak. The algorithm itself is just not as sophisticated.
There are open datasets that can be used to optimize the image processing pipeline but nothing will work better than the photos from the phone lens itself.
From my experience with porting Google Camera app to different phones, most of the times, it just won't work without tweaking for a particular phone sensor.
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2021-08-07
I can't find an option for HDR in GCAM. I thought it saved multiple photos, which it's not doing on my phone. Is it always enabled on GCAM?
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2021-08-07
"HDR" stands for "High Dynamic Range", it is mostly a marketing gimmick.It does take multiple photos and then combines them to produce the HRD result image. So it is not always on, as it requires a still scene. HDR mode is not related to the sharpness issue you are concerned of.
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2021-08-10
HDR can be related to sharpness. In OPs images posted, it's quite clear that OpenCamera has flowers and greens overexposed. Leaves, instead of looking sharp, look like fuzzy green blobs.
Photos taken for HDR effect at different exposures can have a slight blur that needs to be corrected for when combining the HDR result image.
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2021-08-12
It is not true that " it's quite clear that OpenCamera has flowers and greens overexposed". When any shot is overexposed it is absolutely clear that the photographer made the camera to do that, intentionally or unnoticed.
Dynamic range is not related to sharpness in any way, be it High dynamic range or Low. Dynamic range is the range of luminance in the scene, from dark to bright.
Since the final HDR photo is a composition of several shots, there will be smear if the scene (or the camera) was not perfectly still. This, motion blur, is not the same as sharpness. Sharpness is related to resolving power and/or to digital sampling scheme (under or over sampling). The smaller size detail a digital image shows, the sharper the image is.
Overexposure is not related to sharpness, even if also sharpness is lost due to the fact that some data altogether is lost. Overexposure just cuts out some of the dynamic range, from the bright end, that the scene had.
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I installed on my Pixel 4a but photos not as crisp as stock app. I have quality set to 100% and tried both APIs. File size is slightly higher with Open Camera but the images aren't as sharp and detailed. This shows up particularly when using flash (alternate flash for Camera2 API). Any ideas please?
Anyone help please? I am saving at 2,268 x 4,032 pixels, JPEG at 100% quality. Google camera filesize 2,859KB, Opencamera 4,453KB. Photos attached are resized for upload but still show the difference with the more whitewashed, less detailed, Opencamera shot versus Google camera app.
Here's the same shot with the Google camera app...
Hi, need help. I am not able to record audio using my bluetooth TWS earbuds MPOW Flame Lite. I using Open Camera app on my Realme X2. I am happy with Video settings but It will be great if there is audio settings for bluetooth earbuds. Thanks.
I'm not sure I'm afraid - posting a new thread may give better visibility in case anyone else has any ideas.
Back to my topic regarding the poor picture quality in comparison to google camera app, does this settings about info help with a potential solution please...?
Open Camera v1.48.3
Code: 80
Package: net.sourceforge.opencamera
Android API version: 30
Device manufacturer: Google
Device model: Pixel 4a
Device code-name: sunfish
Device variant: sunfish
Language: en
Standard max heap?: 256
Large max heap?: 512
Display size: 1080x2072
Display metrics: 1080x2072
Current camera ID: 0
No. of cameras: 2
Multi-camera?: false
Camera API: Camera2 (Android L)
Camera orientation: 90
Photo mode: Standard
Preview resolutions: 1920x1080, 1920x960, 1440x1080, 1280x960, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600, 720x480, 640x480, 640x360, 352x288, 320x240, 176x144
Preview resolution: 1920x1080
Photo resolutions: 4032x3024, 4000x3000, 4032x2268, 3840x2160, 4000x2000, 3264x2448, 3200x2400, 3264x1836, 2592x1944, 2688x1512, 2560x1280, 2048x1536, 1920x1440, 1920x1080, 1600x1200, 1920x960, 1440x1080, 1280x960, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600, 720x480, 640x480, 640x360, 352x288, 320x240, 176x144
Photo resolution: 4032x2268
Video qualities: 1, 6_r4000x2000, 6_r3264x1836, 6_r2592x1944, 6_r2688x1512, 6_r2560x1280, 6_r2048x1536, 6_r1920x1440, 6, 5_r1600x1200, 5_r1920x960, 5_r1440x1080, 5_r1280x960, 5, 4_r1024x768, 4_r800x600, 4, 3_r640x480, 3_r640x360, 3, 7, 2
Video resolutions: 3840x2160, 4000x2000, 3264x1836, 2592x1944, 2688x1512, 2560x1280, 2048x1536, 1920x1440, 1920x1080, 1600x1200, 1920x960, 1440x1080, 1280x960, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600, 720x480, 640x480, 640x360, 352x288, 320x240, 176x144
Video quality: 6
Video frame width: 1920
Video frame height: 1080
Video bit rate: 33000000
Video frame rate: 60
Video capture rate: 60.0
Video high speed: false
Video capture rate factor: 1.0
Auto-level?: Available
Auto-level enabled?: false
Face detection?: Available
RAW?: Available
HDR?: Available
Panorama?: Available
Gyro sensors?: Available
Expo?: Available
Expo compensation?: Available
Exposure compensation range: -24 to 24
Manual ISO?: Available
ISO range: 55 to 7111
Manual exposure?: Available
Exposure range: 13611 to 10170373248
Manual WB?: Available
WB temperature: 1000 to 15000
Optical stabilization?: Available
Optical stabilization enabled?: true
Video stabilization?: Available
Video stabilization enabled?: false
Tonemap curve?: Available
Tonemap max curve points: 64
Can disable shutter sound?: Available
Camera view angle: 65.59413 , 38.136196
Flash modes: flash_off, flash_auto, flash_on, flash_torch, flash_red_eye
Focus modes: focus_mode_auto, focus_mode_macro, focus_mode_locked, focus_mode_infinity, focus_mode_manual2, focus_mode_continuous_picture, focus_mode_continuous_video
Color effects: None
Scene modes: auto, action, portrait, landscape, night, night-portrait, theatre, beach, snow, sunset, fireworks, sports, party, candlelight
White balances: auto, manual, incandescent, fluorescent, warm-fluorescent, daylight, cloudy-daylight, twilight, shade
Magnetic accuracy?: -1
Using SAF?: false
Save Location: OpenCamera
Save Location SAF:
Parameters: None
Is anyone else using Open Camera on a Pixel 4a smartphone please? I'd really like to get this equalling the quality of the stock app. Any suggestions gratefully received.
I guess one question is whether Open Camera is able to use Google's HDR+. With the Pixel 1/2, Google said HDR+ was enabled for third party applications (and I think I saw people confirm it works with Open Camera), but this wasn't supported for the Pixel 3a. I haven't been able to find info on the Pixel 4a or 5.
How do other third party camera applications compare?
Here is a comparison with Footej Camera 2 which only allows standard JPG quality in the free version. IMHO it compares well, maybe better, with the Google app. And certainly not washed out like the Open Camera image. But I prefer Open Source, so would really like to get Open Camera acheiving the same quality / contrast please.
Well, Google HDR pipeline is more optimized for the phone. So there's no way to achieve that with Open Camera without optimizing the pipeline to produce similar output to Google HDR.
I'd personally take hundreds if not thousands of photos with Google HDR (keep the originals) and then optimize the pipeline offline and implement it in Open Camera.
"I'd personally take hundreds if not thousands of photos with Google HDR (keep the originals) and then optimize the pipeline offline and implement it in Open Camera."
Ah, so you would personally do. Maybe on Monday all things will appear more crisp for you through the pipeline.
No need to be snarky.
People asking for quality improvements need to be aware that there's no settings one might tweak. The algorithm itself is just not as sophisticated.
https://hdrplusdata.org/
There are open datasets that can be used to optimize the image processing pipeline but nothing will work better than the photos from the phone lens itself.
From my experience with porting Google Camera app to different phones, most of the times, it just won't work without tweaking for a particular phone sensor.
I can't find an option for HDR in GCAM. I thought it saved multiple photos, which it's not doing on my phone. Is it always enabled on GCAM?
"HDR" stands for "High Dynamic Range", it is mostly a marketing gimmick.It does take multiple photos and then combines them to produce the HRD result image. So it is not always on, as it requires a still scene. HDR mode is not related to the sharpness issue you are concerned of.
HDR can be related to sharpness. In OPs images posted, it's quite clear that OpenCamera has flowers and greens overexposed. Leaves, instead of looking sharp, look like fuzzy green blobs.
Photos taken for HDR effect at different exposures can have a slight blur that needs to be corrected for when combining the HDR result image.
It is not true that " it's quite clear that OpenCamera has flowers and greens overexposed". When any shot is overexposed it is absolutely clear that the photographer made the camera to do that, intentionally or unnoticed.
Dynamic range is not related to sharpness in any way, be it High dynamic range or Low. Dynamic range is the range of luminance in the scene, from dark to bright.
Since the final HDR photo is a composition of several shots, there will be smear if the scene (or the camera) was not perfectly still. This, motion blur, is not the same as sharpness. Sharpness is related to resolving power and/or to digital sampling scheme (under or over sampling). The smaller size detail a digital image shows, the sharper the image is.
Overexposure is not related to sharpness, even if also sharpness is lost due to the fact that some data altogether is lost. Overexposure just cuts out some of the dynamic range, from the bright end, that the scene had.