I’m moving this to software.
I don’t experience any of these problems with open camera.
I also was searching for a decent camera app some time ago. Though the most important part was not “open source” but Usability. I then found Camera Zoom FX and I’m using it now for quite a time. You can adjust a lot of stuff and edit your pictures afterwards (if you want to).Unfortunately I can not remember why I dumped all the other camera apps and preferred Camera Zoom FX. My memory is not the best 
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I’m also using Open Camera without any issues regarding schütter delay.
Yes, Open camera does the trick!
You know I love wikis, but I think there could be problems with the pros & cons, as some people might consider “many many settings” a pro, others a con; some may consider an app “clear and intuitive” while others think it’s confusing; and some may even like google apps.
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For now I am also preferably using Open Camera. In particular I like that it has more settings available as the default program. With the possibility to choose the ISO settings & quick access to manually set the exposure correction it becomes easier to get better quality images. Also exposure lock is a great feature.
Though I am not happy with focusing, with none of the apps so far tested (default, Focal, Open Camera). Though, that may be an issue with the chip rather than with the software … Not sure.
Well, so quick things can change …
While I was mainly using open Camera lately, I realized today that the image quality is worse than with the default camera app. As some people have already posted, they were quite unsatisfied with (purple/violet) lines in their images.
Now the annoying thing is, that this doesn’t really satisfy me either, since the white balance is worse with the default camera app. So I guess, I need to continue looking for a decent camera app …
Didn’t like the default G camera. Tried Open camera but liked it less. Now using Camera MX which I really like and recommend to try!
It has some nice extras like live effects and live shot (shoot the past) options. And you can turn the shutter sound off! Also comes with own media manager which was something I was also looking for. You can edit your pics with the manager and it has nice basic options for that imo. The manager would need some improvement though as you can’t view your screenshots with it and wasn’t able to save my editings on a non-photo pic. But in its entirety I think it’s a really good package!
Thanks, this is a good thread. My main objection to the default camera is that you can’t mute the shutter, or even reduce the volume. This is annoying for me as I would like to use my phone to take images of manuscripts in libraries.
(It seems the reason you can’t mute the shutter is to deter men from secretly taking photos up the skirts of girls… If so, that’s very odd, because there is nothing to stop them taking videos…)
What is the best app where you can mute the shutter? Open Camera can’t, it seems. At the moment I’m using Z Camera, but the advertising is annoying (I suppose I could just pay for it…).
I try Open Camera, but every time I open the app, the flash goes off. Any idea how to stop that? I can’t find it in the settings…
Oh and another question, which photo-apps do you use? The google app doesn’t show downloaded pictures or screenshots and I can’t really find them again 
I’m using Piktures which has a nice UI, but I’m not completely happy with it as it’s not open source and sometimes the image cache is only refreshed when restarting the app.
Edit: Also, it doesn’t show the correct picture when opening it from another app. E.g. when tapping on a picture in my file manager it will be opened in Piktures. But the chosen picture isn’t shown. Piktures always shows the picture where I left off before.
Edit2: The issues I mentioned seem to be gone with the latest update.
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I use Camera ZOOM FX as standard camera. Is there a way to have this app as the camera that can be opened from the lockscreen? I think the chosen standard app should be the camera app that can be accesed from the lock screen, not the preinstalled google camera.
Seems like you set Google Camera as default app for certain actions. You can delete that through
Settings -> apps -> Google Camera
There you have to look for the button clear defaults (Aktionen auf Standard zurück setzen on my german device).
You also can achieve that by deactivating Google Camera completely.
Then, the next time you swipe from the right on the lock screen or use the camera hardware button you should be asked which action to perform. You could set another default then as well.
@Karen.ptrs I think that’s not directly settable, but the automatic flash at start only triggered under certain circumstances.
I’ve noticed it only under low light conditions when you have automatic focus and auto white balance activated. It is not triggered, when you activate continuous focus for example. There are certainly several other setting combinations where it’s not triggered.