We like the results of the Mi 10 Ultra and the OnePlus 8 Pro best. The photos taken with the Galaxy S20 Ultra lack image sharpness, among other things, and a yellow tint is clearly noticeable with the Huawei flagship. Not every RAW image is superior to the JPEG copy in daylight either. The DNG files from the OnePlus 8 Pro and the Galaxy S20 Ultra are processed better by Adobe's photo app, but there's still a lot of room for improvement here. The pictures taken with the Huawei P40 Pro Plus and the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra in particular reproduce the subjects relatively poorly. Especially in the dark, the raw files produce a lot of noise and image errors when using Adobe Lightroom. The differences between the JPEG copies of the Pro mode and the actual RAW format turn out surprisingly small. Adobe Photoshop experts would certainly be able to extract even more quality from the raw data format, but that wasn't the goal of this comparison. Afterwards, the images were processed and edited using the "Auto" mode of the app. In order to keep this test as representative as possible of the "typical" smartphone point-and-shoot user, the pictures were taken under the "Auto" setting within the Pro mode and then imported into Adobe Lightroom Mobile for RAW processing this is an application that is available for both iOS and Android users and is free of charge in the basic version. But is the effort involved in post-processing RAW photos worth it with a smartphone? Especially since the photos take up considerably more storage space - in the case of a Huawei P40 Pro Plus, a DNG file has a size of up to 60 MB, which is about 6 times larger than the corresponding JPEG copy. Photos taken with smartphones have meanwhile reached a high-quality level and can be post-processed very well thanks to the RAW format's implementation. The RAW photos are saved in Adobe's openly published DNG standard, which is recognized by most image-editing programs. The raw data format "RAW", in which the camera software writes the photo data largely without editing to the smartphone's internal memory after taking the picture, is an option that has to be selected in the Pro mode of the camera app in all flagship models in the test it's also only available in this mode. None of our test devices saves photos in RAW format by default but rather in the "classic" JPEG format. After our detailed camera review, we now dedicate ourselves to an additional photo comparison of the flagship smartphones in the RAW format.
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