Shooting raw images on the Huawei P30 Pro

Prerequisites

• Google Photos for Android
• PhotoShop for Android
• Lightroom (free) for Android
• Launch the camera in Pro mode and update your settings to 40MP and raw. Now when you take a shot you'll get the normal JPEG but also the raw file (DNG) that the camera used to generate the image.

Workflow

• Take some photos in Pro camera mode.
• Overexpose by taking manual control of the shutter and slowing it down
• Open Google Photos and you'll see the phone has also generated some JPEGs alongside. Multi-select and delete them so we don't get distracted.

Sensors

39.7 MP

• Technology CMOS BSI
• 7296x5472
• IMX650 Wide (f/1.6, 1/1.7", 27mm, OIS) []
• 7.3 mm x 5.47 mm, Diagonal: 0.46 inch
• Pixel size 1 μm
• "SuperSpectrum" image sensor
• RYYB

19.5 MP Ultrawide

• 5104x3824
• f/2.2, 1/2.7", 16mm

7.9 MP Telephoto

• 3248×2432
• f/3.4, 1/4", 125mm
• folded optics
• OIS

Sensor equivalency

• What does 27mm mean?

Screen resolution

• 19.5:9
• 1080x2340

Processing

• cta-core (2x 2.6 GHz Cortex A76, 2x 1.92 GHz Cortex A76, 4x 1.8 GHz Cortex A55)
• GPU Mali-G76 MP10

Generating HDR images

• You can use the HDR mode but you can't access the raw data
• Export as 16-bit TIF in Lightroom

References

• Wikipedia
• https://www.deviceranks.com/en/camera-sensor/686/sony-imx650-exmor-rs
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exmor
• https://frankdoorhof.com/web/2019/04/solving-the-p30-pro-color-problems/