Picture quality when using Google Camera vs not

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If I stop using the stock camera app, will it affect the quality of the pictures? I’ve often time seen that “the magic” happens a lot with Google’s software, but is that when editing the photos or actually taking the pictures?

I mostly don’t alter the pictures once they are taken so I don’t care about that.

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I feel that Google’s camera app does slightly better that Graphene’s camera app. Side of Burritos has two videos comparing both apps side by side. I personally use the Graphene camera for day-to-day use and have an actual digital camera to take pictures with when traveling.

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I am on P7P and this is subjective. For me, I like the color quality of Google Cam better than stock and have been using it for months now. I also like it has portrait mode, which I use the most to take pics of my fur babies.

I also use Photos for ease of access to the photo you just shot and its editing capability is richer than stock Gallery. The only small gripe I have with it is that it keeps trashing your pic by default when you want remove it so you can recover later, unlike the stock gallery (I see how this can be beneficial for some people) + it doesnt strip meta data.

Both network permissions are off for me. I’d say give it a shot and see what you prefer

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Thanks for the share! Honestly, I didn’t think much about that, but the Night Sight feature is important for me. Also, the size of the pictures. So I’ll be sticking with GCam. Now, how do you use Gcam privately?

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You can disable the Network permission for GCam. If needed, you can also remove exif data from any pictures made with GCam using a tool like ExifEraser.

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I also use Gcam with network permissions disabled. But I’d be cautious of saying that that’s using it privatelly. If they really want to, it could still phone home through IPC with some other app that has network permission, like the Play Store, Play Services or some app with Google Analytics.

I don’t think they do such thing. It’s too much effort and the reputational risk if caught isn’t worth it for surveiling the camera usage of that tiny minority that restrict network access to GCam. But I think is worth mentioning that removing network permission isn’t a silver bullet, and depends on your threat model if you consider removing network permission enough.