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PhotonCamera uses advanced algorithms for capturing and processing raw images which give unmatched HDR outputs. PhotonCamera is currently in beta stage and is having rapid development.
Features:
HDRX - This functionality enables advanced stacking of many underexposed images and creates beautiful outputs.
Utilize each camera lens, by the main, wide, macro, telephoto or even IR, a functionality not available in other open source apps.
Manual Control - Easy to use knobs to control Focus, Shutter Speed and ISO on the go.
Configurable Settings :
Number of frames(maximum)
Sharpness
Saturation
Shadow Strength
Interactive viewfinder
Enabling the grid
Enabling viewfinder rounding
Advanced mode settings
Save separate settings for each camera lens
Wide range of supported devices.
- Their russian telegram channel has some opinions. - Besides a chemtrail conspiracy - reference there is a whoule channel for the ru-ukr war. I am unsure if it is in support of the war or not and translating it does not really clarify it (sentiment gets lost easily I guess). - Considering that, some clarification would be nice. Because I don’t think I would trust a software made by russian “patriots” (quote from the channel) in the current geopolitical landscape. - An Android camera having a Russian telegram channel basically puts this on the no list for me, dog. - Like, I barely care to even hear their reasons. - It’s Russian AND Telegram? Does it come with hepatitis too? - Uhm. It is important to remember that people are not the extension of the government they live under. - If it was closed source I would agree but you can check for yourself if the code is good. Even if they are crazy. - Telegram is involved with the shadier end of the crypto market, and for a market that’s shady enough as it is without needing a shadier part, it’s pretty damn dark in there. - It isn’t even viable for their uses. They should consider - movingupgrading to Matrix or Signal.- I am absolutely on your side regarding telegram. I was talking about the tool highlighted here. - I was about like… “Am I on Lemmy?” 
 
 
- If it was closed source I would agree but you can check for yourself if the code is good. Even if they are crazy. - No I can not. I am not an android-dev, I am not the best dev out there and I don’t have time to thouroughly go through a big codebase. It would defenetly be possible to hide mallicious code from me, even if I have access to the source-code. For really big projects it is safe to assume other, more knowlegable people have allready audited the code, but for small ones I have to be able to trust the devs. 
 
- Tbf telegram also seems fairly popular in less problematic areas for sime reason (it’s quite populare in ukraine as well for example) 
 
- I didn’t check their Telegram. I just founded this on F-Droid and share it here. - Totally fair. I am just pointing it out here because it felt a bit icky when I saw it on the github page. 
 
 
- According to ExodusPrivacy on aurora store it has 2 trackers, cashlytic and firebase - Supposedly the version on Github releases doesn’t have the Google libraries. - https://github.com/eszdman/PhotonCamera/issues/109 - Still, I would wait until this app is in F-Droid before considering it. It includes some other libraries of unknown source. 
 
- It keeps asking me to allow it to connect to the internet. What for? - Most likely Google firebase and crashlytic. 
 
- Hey, it looks pretty neat! Finally I found a Foss camera that can use the wide len of my phone. I’ll be trying it for a while. 
- Impressive, it seems like higher quality then google cam, it has potential 
- Alas can’t install it on my phone (xperia 1ii) because “unsupported device”. Bummer, it seems actually great. - You tried Izzy on Droid version? - https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.particlesdevs.photoncamera - Yep, no dice, that’s why I came here to complain lol. Both Fdroid w/ Izzy on Droid and the Play Store say its “incompatible” with my phone - Oh 
 
 
- Looks like my s10 won’t run it either unfortunately 
 
- deleted by creator - It means it’s Debug Build. APK is signed by Build Key not Dev Key. - deleted by creator 
 
 
- Opening the app for the first time on my Fairphone 5 (listed as unsupported) actually crashed the OS, but after that it seems to be working ok. - Closing out of the in-app gallery causes the app to crash. But that can easily be worked around by using some other gallery app. - I’ll be testing it for a bit to see how it fares against other HDR methods… - Same experience on my Fairphone 5, first crashed the OS when I tried accessing the gallery. - Now it is working but the pictures have like dead pixels on them.  - FP5 using e/OS here showing the same artifacts. 
 
 
- It seems to work just fine on OnePlus 9 Pro but says “Warning unsupported device” when it starts. 
- Has anyone found the supported device list? It seems to work well on mine but still says it isn’t supported. 
- Tried it on an older Pixel with GrapheneOS. - Can’t zoom, can’t switch to wide-angle lens. Camera does not balance brightness by the focus point. Otherwise pictures look pretty much the same. - I suppose this was made for specific devices in mind? 
- which formats does it support? 
- deleted by creator - It’s available in the Izzy on droid repo, you’ll have to add the repo to the f-droid app with the following URL: - https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=3BF0D6ABFEAE2F401707B6D966BE743BF0EEE49C2561B9BA39073711F628937A- Or scan the QR code here: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/ 
 
- It does not work on my OnePlus 7. If I zoom it crashes, and I have to clear the app data to get it to work again. And if I just take a normal photo it just crashes while processing. 
- Hello. - Hopefully, feedback is appreciated. - Searched on Google Play with no results, same on F Droid. - Thanks. 







