Does anyone know a good Android camera app, that allows some customisation of the sooc JPGs?
The standard camera app of my phone seems to have the internal saturation and sharpening sliders hard-coded to some value beyond good and evil, so the resulting images are pretty ugly. It does support raw, but I usually don’t want to waste time on processing my occasional phone snapshots (the camera is simply not good enough to be worth the effort).
When searching for something recently, I found FreeDcam, which allows configuring saturation and sharpening. Just reducing these two immediately turned my phone from a completely crap camera to something that actually produces pleasing looking images (resolution is of course still poor, but I don’t care much for the kind of photos I use it for).
Unfortunately, FreeDcam is a bit unstable and looking at the GitHub repo, there wasn’t any development happening since 2022. So if there is a good alternative, I’d be happy to know.
And as a side question: Do people really like these horribly oversaturated and -sharpened images?
My pixel lets me use rich color which I believe is P3…they look okay on my phone but on my desktop where the monitor is not quite srgb they look bad with intense red and green so I stopped using it… for now at least… maybe you have something similar…
Open Camera and its fork Hedge Cam 2 (no longer maintained?) allow some tweaking.
If you install GCam (a port of the Pixel camera), that can also be tweaked, though it’s a bit esoteric.
Open Camera also doesn’t seem to allow adjustments on saturation etc. (at least I didn’t find anything).
I think I’ve stumbled upon GCam before and decided that the installation process is too complicated
Thanks, this looks very nice. Exactly the kind of customisability I was looking for.
I just installed the demo for now and the saved images are all black. Do you happen to know if this is the expected limitation of the demo? I couldn’t find any info on it and would rather avoid to pay for the full version, if it doesn’t work on my phone.
Saturation: no. I think these cameras just get data from the phone’s ‘camera service’, and don’t process the raw. In Open Camera, you can adjust some post-processing, e.g. sharpening.
Just tested to make sure and it works for me. I believe the only limitations are related to the video functionality. Could be your phone isn’t properly supported. There’s a Camera2 API Probe app that might tell you more.
The developer can choose to get either a finished JPEG or the raw data, as wanted.
