5 Best Camera Apps For Android Smartphones 2017

1.Camera FV-5 Pro

It is one of the best camera apps for Android, which users can doubtlessly download on their devices. The Camera App is very different from most of the stock Camera Apps when you first open it, you will have a lot of options present on the both sides of the screen, and the latest update also brings the Long Exposure mode which lets you click those Light trace photos. The Application features Manual Focus, Focus Lock but these functions are only restricted to the smartphones which support Manual focusing on the hardware side. You can adjust Exposure, Timer, ISO, Color, Shutter Speed, etc.

The App also supports saving the images in RAW form. You can also rename the picture just by clicking it. You can also lock Exposure and Timer. The developers of the App have tried to give it features like DSLR, but those features also depend on the hardware of the device you are using. The App is available in two versions, Lite version is available for Free, but some features are restricted which means you have to pay for the Pro variant. You can get this best camera app for Android via Google’s Play Store. We have already provided a link below.

PLAY STORE LINK (FREE)

2. Manual Camera

It is the another Manual app in our list known as the Manual Camera; its name is enough to tell its story. The Applications features very similar features to that of the Camera FV-5, but personally, I like the UI of this App because it is very simple to use, which also makes it as on of the best camera apps for Android. The App offers Manual Focusing including Manual and Infinity focus. Also with this app, you can adjust the Exposure, Timer, ISO, White Balance, Flash control, etc.

The biggest advantage of the Manual Camera is that it will occupy hardy 2MB’s in your smartphone. But the most major demerit is that the Application is paid one which means is not suitable for all users. The features of the software are entirely dependent on the smartphone you are using. Only the Pro variant is available for the phone through Google Play Store.

PLAY STORE LINK (PAID)

3. GOOGLE CAMERA App

The best camera app for Android from GOOGLE that offers a clean and convenient interferes. It comes with few settings. It has photosphere and panorama mode that works on a follow-the-dot mechanism. It also has a Lens Blur mode that helps to take a photo by focusing on a particular object and making the background blur, so if you are looking to make your images like DSLR style, then this could help.

The camera app for Android comes with a grid overlay, timer and also video shooting mode. The app had an issue on some devices, but the crash has been fixed. Google Camera also have android wear support for this app which makes this app as all pervasive and the best camera app on Android.

Manual settings

               Most of the time when we snap a photo using our smartphones, we simply point and tap. All the different parameters are set automatically by the phone and we are used to accepting the results. Sometimes we might manually turn on/off HDR mode and maybe we will fiddle with the flash settings, but it’s an automatic process for the most part.

However, many smartphones today include a “professional” or “manual” mode in the bundled camera app, which gives you full access to all the different settings and gives you a greater measure of artistic control. On top of that, if the camera app can save images in RAW mode, then you will have even greater flexibility.

Finding the manual mode is different for every camera app, but it can usually be found nestled in with other creative modes like slow-mo, panorama, and time-lapse. Once activated, you’ll get an extra set of on-screen controls, which we’ll walk you through in this post.

The controls

Metering mode – One of the most important factors in taking a good photo is having the correct amount of light. Taking photos indoors during a birthday party with the lights dimmed is very different than taking a landscape shot on a sunny day. To gauge the light levels and therefore determine the optimum settings for the ISO sensitivity and the shutter, the camera measures the light in one of several ways: matrix, center, or spot.

Matrix metering takes the general light level from multiple points across the frame. The center mode does the same but concentrates more on the central area of the frame, while spot metering just takes the light level reading from one small spot in the very center. Some camera apps also provide a touch metering mode whereby you can tap the screen to tell the app which exact spot to use for measuring the light levels.

Being able to control the metering is important when the scene isn’t evenly lit. Bright light sources (like lamps or the sun) or dark areas with lots of shade can bias the light metering and then cause the picture to be wrongly exposed.

ISO speed – In the days of film photography, the speed at which the film reacted to light was an important factor. If the film was more sensitive to light then less light was needed to capture the image, for instance. This meant the aperture and shutter speed needed to be changed accordingly. Over the years there were various standards for quantifying film sensitivity. In the 1970s, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) created a scale, which is still in use today. The ISO scale is logarithmic, which means that ISO 200 is twice as sensitive as ISO 100, 400 is twice as sensitive as 200 and so on.

Shutter speed – On a traditional camera there is a physical shutter (like on an SLR or DSLR) which opens for a fraction of a second, lets the light in to hit the film/sensor, and then snaps shut again to stop the photo being over exposed. Smartphone cameras achieve the same result by capturing the data from the sensor for a certain amount of time. In fact, light is always hitting the lens, but the data isn’t being recorded. In low light situations, you want the shutter open for longer and in bright sunlight you want it to open and close quickly.

However, altering the shutter speed has lots of benefits. Slow shutter speeds can be used to add artistic motion blur (e.g. for moving water or car tail lights at night), whereas fast shutter speeds are useful for capturing fast moving targets (e.g. sports or animals). The problem with slow shutter speeds is that it increases the chances of camera shake, which is one of the reasons that some phones include Optical Image Stabilization.