[Huawei Developers] Martin Bieber:
Photography enthusiasts, from novices to dedicated professionals, all know that lighting is the most fundamental element at the photographer's disposal. Excellent lighting can enhance the imaging effects across an entire image. Therefore, mitigating the effects of poor lighting is crucial to crafting pristine images.

In order to provide for an optimal shooting experience, many phone makers have offered niche shooting modes that are fine-tuned to account for different optical environments, and various lighting challenges. However, since these camera capabilities are rooted in the phone's operating system, they cannot be directly implemented by third-party apps, which limits their functionality. Gimbal cameras, which are often used in Vlog shooting, are a good example of this phenomenon. In most cases, users need to shoot and edit videos in a dedicated app, where the phone's preset shooting capabilities are out of reach.

Fortunately this unsatisfactory status quo has changed, with the opening up of the system camera capabilities in Huawei's Mate 30 series smartphones, which enable the DJI MIMO app to invoke system-level shooting functions, such as front camera HDR video, video bokeh effects, and night shooting. This provides users of DJI OSMO Mobile 3 with access to a whole host of enthralling shooting options.

For a better illustration of how Camera Kit enhances shooting in diverse lighting, we've performed several hands-on tests to determine how well the Huawei Mate 30 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro perform for vlog shooting with DJI OSMO Mobile 3. Since DJI MIMO has not integrated any iPhone system camera capabilities, we tested the Huawei Mate 30 Pro + DJI MIMO + Mobile OSMO 3 (Huawei Mate 30 Pro group), and iPhone 11 Pro + Mobile OSMO 3 (iPhone 11 Pro group), to obtain a direct comparison.

Challenging extremely low-light shooting at night

With nightfall, photography becomes a much greater challenge. The camera is hardly capable of focusing, and pictures become notoriously unclear, due to an absence of sufficient lighting. The picture below, taken by the iPhone 11 Pro group, shows what insufficient lighting looks like in practice.

As you can see, the image is too dark to reveal the building outlines, or any other key details, with any degree of clarity.

Now let's see how the Huawei Mate 30 Pro under the exact same conditions.

Using the same gimbal camera, you can see that the photo taken by the Huawei Mate 30 Pro is significantly brighter, and the outlines of even the furthest away buildings remain visible. This is a photo that would make waves on Instagram!

Even if you're accustomed to the powerful night shooting on Huawei phones, you still might be blown away by the night shots taken on Mate 30 Pro. The phone's formidable 40 MP SuperSensing lens brings out each and every detail lurking under the cover of darkness, in its full splendor.

The partnership between Huawei Mate 30 series and DJI has also resulted in optimized videography that is no less astounding. The DJI MIMO app has incorporated the versatile shooting capabilities provided by HUAWEI Camera Kit to facilitate next-level recording and editing, for instance, allowing the gimbal camera to directly invoke the phone's native camera, switch between front and rear cameras, and zoom in or out, facilitating seamless collaboration between the phone and gimbal camera.

As an undisputed mobile photography leader, Huawei has long been committed to exploring new frontiers in photography and videography. Third-party developers can now benefit from the unmatched software-hardware in Huawei devices, and deliver a versatile, first-rate shooting experience, which will undoubtedly inspire an outpouring of developer innovations. It is in this spirit that HUAWEI Developers has opened up Camera Kit, providing partner developers with enriching and immersive features, via the slow-mo capability, wide aperture capability, and hand-held night shooting capability, among others!

If you are interested in giving your users the best shooting experience available, and working hand-in-hand with Huawei to build the mobile photography ecosystem of the future, visit the HUAWEI Developers website to learn more about the enchanting Camera Kit, and other exciting multimedia capabilities.