Essential Camera 1.0.13.001

Reviews

3 ★, on 2019-04-30
New update doesn't work with power button shortcut. Others have reported this same issue. When pressing the power button twice to bring up the camera, it often presents a blank screen. You can't even take a picture or video of that black screen. It probably has something to do with not being able to get exclusive access to the camera when the app opens.

4 ★, on 2019-08-26
Pictures taken on the rear camera is great and so is it's portrait mode. The monochrome camera useful in low light situations, bringing out more detail in the dark with as little to no noise as possible . Overall it's great....well except the front camera which lacks sharpness and detail in dimly lit places. As for the 360° camera, it's just FUN and amazing to use, No complaints there.

3 ★, on 2019-04-11
The app works great on my Essential Phone. But a simple traffic analysis of the Essential Camera app is showing that they are sending data to Facebook (Graph API) without our consent (among many other trackers). There is no legitimate reason to do so, a camera app should work 100% offline (except crash reports maybe). Sad to see Essential doesn't have good privacy practices

4 ★, on 2018-09-28
Fine camera, basic app, dreadful autofocus. Nobody should complain about the camera, is it the best out there? Nope. But since the iPhone 5, every phone camera has become VERY good. This app is a little light on the features. It is nice that some very popular modes are a quick click away (portrait, b&w, selfie), but where is the pro modes? I want to be able to mess with my settings, change my iso, aperture and focus setting. It would help me solve the biggest problem with this camera and the only thing people should have a legit complaint about: The auto focus is horrendous on this phone. It almost never focuses on the stuff I am shooting. It is pull your hair out frustrating. That is the only update I am waiting for. Otherwise the photo quality is good enough for this generation of camera. But please find a fix for this auto focus and add some pro modes to the app. I love this phone and think it's a crying shame that they will probably never release a Ph-1X2.

1 ★, on 2019-10-20
The first 6 months the camera worked as it should. After one of the updates the camera started to malfunction. It started to freeze up or fail after taking a few pictures. As time has gone on it then would at random filter pictures in different colors such as green, yellow or red. Then the camera would only operate in black and white but only for a few seconds. Then only the selfie function would work in color. Now nothing works. The camera works in other apps so that's not it.

2 ★, on 2019-11-03
It works.. .. somewhat. Photos okay at the best, low light performance in comparison to HTC One A9 average at the best. Digital image stabilization missing. Needs work. 360 camera nice feature thus 3 stars. I hope Essential will not give up. Potential is there. Dropping off 1 star. After last update 360 camera causes phone to reboot if battery is below 70%.