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Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by t0bia_s »

FireInsight wrote: post #74

What I love in Open Camera is that I am able to turn off all extra post-processing (noise, yes please) and use my phone camera with full manual settings like it was a DSLR (with a really bad sensor). Only problems are clunky UI and general slowness of taking pictures, but you get used to it. It's really unbeatable from a photographer / artist perspective, especially because I care a lot about imperfect gritty noisy l…

If you are photogrpher, you don't care about postprocessing in app. You want RAW file and edit in reliable editing software.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by FireInsight »

t0bia_s wrote: post #111
FireInsight wrote: post #74

What I love in Open Camera is that I am able to turn off all extra post-processing (noise, yes please) and use my phone camera with full manual settings like it was a DSLR (with a really bad sensor). Only problems are clunky UI and general slowness of taking pictures, but you get used to it. It's really unbeatable from a photographer / artist perspective, especially because I care a lot about imperfect gritty noisy l…

If you are photogrpher, you don't care about postprocessing in app. You want RAW file and edit in reliable editing software.

One thing I also care about is the storage space on my phone running out... Also, I haven't found any good RAW editing app on my phone yet, and I am not gonna jump through the hoops of taking the picture to my laptop and editing it there before just sharing some random snapshot of a day with someone.

But yes, I am a photograper and always take raw photos with my DSLR.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by t0bia_s »

FireInsight wrote: post #112
t0bia_s wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are photogrpher, you don't care about postprocessing in app. You want RAW file and edit in reliable editing software.

One thing I also care about is the storage space on my phone running out... Also, I haven't found any good RAW editing app on my phone yet, and I am not gonna jump through the hoops of taking the picture to my laptop and editing it there before just sharing some random snapshot of a day with someone. But yes, I am a photograper and always take raw photos with my DSLR.

You still use DSLR as photographer in 2026?

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by johanyc »

cozzyd wrote: post #92
drnick1 wrote: post #46

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You really need to start using an ad blocker. I don't see any ads at all, anywhere on the Internet. It boggles my mind that someone who reads HN does not use an ad blocker in 2026.

every once in a while I click on the google feed on my phone, which instead of opening in firefox like it should opens in some chrome webview with no ublock. It is truly atrocious (and... if you don't have unlimited data, expensive too).

Turn off open web pages in the app

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by FireInsight »

t0bia_s wrote: post #113
FireInsight wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing I also care about is the storage space on my phone running out... Also, I haven't found any good RAW editing app on my phone yet, and I am not gonna jump through the hoops of taking the picture to my laptop and editing it there before just sharing some random snapshot of a day with someone. But yes, I am a photograper and always take raw photos with my DSLR.

You still use DSLR as photographer in 2026?

Unprofessional photograper, the camera is pretty old but serves me well enough.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by yencabulator »

VladVladikoff wrote: post #109
Sateallia wrote: post #73

With Open Camera, my device (and seemingly many others) have phantom cameras with IDs that crash Android's camera server if accessed. When that happens I have to restart my phone. Open Camera does not have a way to blacklist those. There are several issues open about this on the issue tracker but they have been open since 2020. This is not an easy problem to fix (LineageOS uses a manually populated key called "config…

This is the kind of stuff that just makes me ok with using an iPhone. What a headache.

The proprietary camera app from Google is what you should be comparing your preferred walled garden to.

This post is talking about open source, and very little in the Apple ecosystem qualifies.

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