Huawei P20 PRO HDR+RAW

In the new version, you can enable HDR DNG, in the "Functions in Development"

It`s also not working on the Huawei Mate 10 Pro. What a shame on Huawei.

Hello,

I asked the same question couple days ago and I will share the answer I got from the Adobe support team. I am also the owner of an Huawei P20 Pro with such an incredible camera.

First refer to my forum question on the link below:

shooting raw's in Lightroom Mobile on Android phone

than I sent a feedback to adobe, have a look on the link below:

Lightroom mobile: RAW-DNG not supported on Huawei P20 PRO | Photoshop Family Customer Community

after the feedback Adobe got in touch with me via email and they asked me first to install an (3rd) camera app and check/verify if that app supports the RAW/DNG on Huawei P20 Pro, they suggested by the way to install an "Manual Camera" app from the google playstore and you can download and install actually "Manual Camera Compatibility" and open it and it will run some tests and you will get a red markeg message that RAW shooting is not supported, so there is no need to install entire "Manual Camera" app it self as it cannot shoot RAW/DNG.

So after i made this test I replied to the Adobe support via email and then they told me following:

Hi Amel,

Actually, the native camera of any Android device i.e. the camera app pre-installed on the mobile uses a specific set of APIs which are not exposed to 3rd party apps (like Lightroom CC). Whereas the 3rd party camera apps use the exposed Camera2 APIs, which are generally not completely polished, and manufacturers very often forget to bring the parity into it. This is in-turn causing the issue on all the 3rd party camera applications on your device.

And at the end I have also tried to "bypass" this issue with an temporary workaround where I tried to shoot RAW/DNG with Huawei P20 Pro built-in camera and just simply import the image on to LR, but when I imported this RAW/DNG image and tried to open it and LR simply crashed and asked me to send the error report to Adobe which I of course did. So LR cannot open RAW/DNG files at all because it is not supported yet.

In my opinion this is something that Adobe needs to discuss with Huawei directly.

Hope that my answer answered your question.

Have a nice day ..

Best regards

Amel