As far as I can tell you from ANDROID Development:
The Camera API from Android itself seems to be a little buggy (in example: before 2.1 there is no solution to get Camera shown in portrait-mode without scrambling the Images).
Another abstraction layer on top of that might be better (in terms of accessibility, features, whatever), or even more worse. What it does for shure: It steals resources, which may be needed for your own App.