[HOWTO] Use the Camera App

Note: Documentation in this section is Work in progress. Help us update it. Help us make /e/ better !!

Camera Icon Camera Screen
open_camera_icon open_camera_mainscreen

Features

  • Option to auto-level so your pictures are perfectly level no matter what.
  • Expose your camera’s functionality: support for scene modes, color effects, white balance, ISO, exposure compensation/lock, selfie with “screen flash”, HD video and more.
  • Handy remote controls: timer (with optional voice countdown), auto-repeat mode (with configurable delay).
  • Option to take photo remotely by making a noise, or by voice command “cheese”.
  • Configurable volume keys and user interface.
  • Upside-down preview option for use with attachable lenses.
  • Overlay a choice of grids and crop guides.
  • Optional GPS location tagging (geotagging) of photos and videos; for photos this includes compass direction (GPSImgDirection, GPSImgDirectionRef).
    Apply date and timestamp, location coordinates, and custom text to photos; store date/time and location as video subtitles (.SRT).
    Panorama, including for front camera.
  • Support for HDR (with auto-alignment and ghost removal) and Exposure Bracketing.
  • Support for Camera2 API: manual controls (with optional focus assist); burst mode; RAW (DNG) files; slow motion video.
  • Noise reduction (including low light night mode) and Dynamic range optimization modes for better quality photos.
  • Options for on-screen histogram, zebra stripes, focus peaking.
  • Focus bracketing mode.

How to use the Camera app

  • To access a comprehensive guide on the Open Camera please check the document here
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  • There it is also explained how to save photos and video to your SD card, see under FAQ.
  • See also Photos or videos fail to save! under FAQ

About the Project

Project Source Code
Project is forked from https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/code/ci/master/tree/

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I have just added that last line to this [howto]: save photos and video on SD card.
If people use this, then the next step must be to sync that new folder on the SD card to eCloud, which is explained in Install and connect Nextcloud app to your /e/cloud drive.
I am running into problems there though, so waiting with adding that to the HowTo.

I added the line about Photos or videos fail to save!
In my case Video recording failed at the first time. After reading the Photos or videos fail to save! one of my problems was solved.

The second:
Go to: Video settings
First select the Video Resolution here. There was nothing checked for me. Still, I saw somewhere that videos were being made with a 4K resolution. Those videos showed the message: ‘Truncated’ and could not be opened on another PC. > Select a resolution. I choose 1920 x 1080.
Video Format. Here I have selected MPEG4 H264 and it works fine.