Dioptra™ Lite - a camera tool

1.0.10

Workshop512

4.15

1,255 reviews

100,000+
Downloads

Free

Dioptra™ Lite - a camera tool for navigation, surveying, and measurement

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About Dioptra™ Lite - a camera tool

Dioptra™ Lite - a camera tool was a tools app developed by Workshop512. It was removed from Google Play Jan 26, 2025 and is no longer available for download.

Download Statistics

Dioptra™ Lite - a camera tool had been downloaded 270 thousand times before it became unavailable.

User Ratings

Dioptra™ Lite - a camera tool was rated 4.15 out of 5 stars, based on 1.3 thousand ratings.

App Information

Dioptra™ Lite - a camera tool was free to download. The APK download size was 542.78 kB. The last available version was 1.0.10. The last update was on December 29, 2017.

Technical Requirements

Dioptra™ Lite - a camera tool required Android 4.0.3+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play September 2014.

Description

Dioptra™ Lite - a camera position and angle measurement tool for navigation, surveying, positioning, and measurement - - with over 35,000 users!

Stay tuned for an enhanced Dioptra app with more features, better sharing integration, and supporting more phones and devices!

Instructions: Press the on-screen camera button to save an image. View saved images in your device's gallery app.
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Dioptra™ Lite provides the following information like a theodolite optical instrument -
• yaw indicator (compass)
• pitch indicator (tilt degrees)
• roll indicator (tilt degrees)
along with -
• GPS position
• azimuth and bearing to photo subject

The ancient greek "dioptra" was a classical astronomical and surveying instrument, dating from the 3rd century BCE. The dioptra was a sighting tube or, alternatively, a rod with a sight at both ends, attached to a stand. If fitted with protractors, it could be used to measure angles.
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Recent changes:
-Added drop shadow to onscreen text for better visibility in light scenes
-Added support for volume keys to take photos
-Added option to use the phone's alternate (front) camera
-Stability improvements

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More data about Dioptra™ Lite - a camera tool

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	270 thousand
Rating	4.15 based on 1.3 thousand ratings
Version	1.0.10
APK size	542.8 KB
Number of libraries	1
Designed for Android	4.0.3+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Comments on Dioptra™ Lite - a camera tool for Android

★★★★★ Excellent app. I use it on the field to create custom horizons for my astrophotography softwares. I wish it would generate a spreadsheet with ALT-AZ data for export

★★★★★ Please compile an Android 14 version. Love this app. Have used it on my previous phones. Unfortunately play store is telling me that app is not compatible with my current android 14 phone. Please compile one. Happy to pay. Thanks!

★★★★★ Saves all kinds of useful info in the photo (visable, not just EXIF header), like GPS, direction you are facing, angle, tilt, time, etc. Like a land surveyor's instrument. Not for every picture you take, but perfect for legal or historical or engineering matters. My initial review complained about not being able to move the app to the SD card, which I later found out was because newer versions of Android prevent it (so you can't buy an app and then share it with someone who didn't pay).

★★★★★ I've used Dioptra lite for archaeological survey over years, occasionally. Although slow to acquire an accurate GPS position and with unreliable elevation data in some areas, it's design and features are hard to improve upon.

★★☆☆☆ Hi. Looks impressive. Not working by me. I assume cep distance is distance to the object and that you must aim the crosshair at the feet of the object. The cep distance is then totally erratic. Of course, if you are using triangulation to determine that distance, you should allow altitude adjustment.

★★☆☆☆ The bearing display is completely wrong compared to the azimuth display. The app must be using a buggy formula to convert azimuth to bearing. It has the bearing Southeasterly and Northwesterly readouts backwards (the degrees move in the wrong direction) Hasn't been updated in almost 7 years, so I doubt it will be fixed.

★★☆☆☆ I use a BLU phone and the version of Android running in my phone is newer than what DIOPTRA was written for. Alas, I cannot use it.

★★☆☆☆ Looks good, seans to work as expected as first time using these types of apps. Just a couple of things. 1. How do I take it off full screen mode as this distortes the image, there is no option for this. 2. Where are the pictures saved to, they are not in my gallery or picture/image folder. My phone is an Oppo A72. If I can get this working properly I will give 5 stars.

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