I Think its Time for Canon to Start Using Sony Sensors...

This.  Or multiple passes through a raw processor, and layer masks.  We can all spot the ugly HDR photos, but "every time this is attempted" shows extreme observation bias.  When you don't notice any PP, it could very well mean it was done skillfully (successfully).

Karl might as well argue against DOF control, or AF, or automatic exposure.  All of them can be inappropriately relied upon by the inexperienced photographer.  Arguing Canon is a better approach than Sony because their worse-performing sensors prevent people from turning out cr@p photos is, well, cr@p.  A Sony sensor in my hands would improve my current results freeing them of pattern noise at large print sizes, not suddenly turn me into a hackey HDRist.

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-CW