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Dual-lens Android cameras: are all unable to shoot RAW+tele?

Started May 23, 2018 | Questions thread
onlyfreeman
onlyfreeman Senior Member • Posts: 2,498
Re: Dual-lens Android cameras: are all unable to shoot RAW+tele?

Mark B UK wrote:

Given that the telephoto lenses on these smartphones is actual hardware rather than a software workaround (such as the digital zooms featured previously) it seems to me illogical that the feature isn't enabled for the non-processed RAW option.

I guess that the way the zoom is implemented combines the image from both sensors, or at least the zoom mode is free to do some kind of software trickery that would make RAW capture more difficult.

Then again I don't really know, I'm not sure any android phone allows RAW capture from the telephoto lens. I wonder if the new Huawei P20 does allow it?

I might have to go down to the store and find out.

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