Obscura — Pro Camera for Android

I’ve recently purchased Obscura 3 to see what it had in comparison to Obscura 2. The simplification is amazing compared to 2. I will miss the way the settings were on the wheel, but the much more simple UI is amazing. Definitely recommend this app if you want to up your photo game.

I simply don’t understand what is going on in the app when I want to use it. I thought maybe that the Photo Mode was like point and shoot mode and Pro Photo Mode was for photography but in Pro Photo Mode I have to remember to turn off the secondary file HEIC or JPG every time I shoot. I want to use this because I prefer the one-time payment to the subscription model but the UI controls are just too confusing. And unfortunately the Walkthrough documentation doesn’t really help me. Searched YouTube today for possible walkthroughs or tips and tricks and there’s nothing. Update (7/5/2022) Thank you for the reply and I appreciate that this matters. I’m going to reply here so maybe other people looking at the app can find the right menu - It’s not the gear icon on the camera app itself. You have to tap the photos icon (or pull down the camera) and there’s a second gear icon for other settings. This changes my review. It’s not 5 stars because this settings menu was not at all discoverable.

Purchased this immediately upon release based on experience with Obscura 1 & 2. The initial bugs were addressed quickly, and these are the handiest controls and least cluttered UI I've ever used. Yay! I kept gravitating back to the iOS camera due to a noticably slower auto-focus with Obscura 3. This is the only point against that I've found. With continued use, Obscura 3 has improved in surprising ways just due to my growing familiarity with its potential. The camera presets are an excellent tool. They are so thoroughly customizable that experience with them has resulted in seamless and instant access to two very different and surprisingly optimal cameras in one place. You can preset the aspect ratio, type of viewfinder grid (crosshairs are a brilliant addition), live filters, spirit level, white balance mode, photo format... it's pretty involved, and my actual use of it has developed with time. There are 24 live filters: 6 analog, 6 landscape, 6 portrait, and 6 monochrome. Any one of these can be applied to a preset or selected from on-screen controls. I could go on and on. There's just so much that has been put into this. I don't know what the price is now. It was $10 when I got it. I'm pleased. More to the point, I'm impressed.

Need to fix private photos, they’re not private at all.

I like all the manual controls this app exposes, but the UI could use some improvement. The iconography can be very difficult to understand—some text labels would help greatly.