Dynamic Range Really isn't as important as you are lead to believe.

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I'm not talking about the existence of absolute zero point and I'm not shooting wide-DR scenes with the lens cap on (except for dark frames now and then). My blue sky example is not blue sky research, it is a real-life case relevant to this thread. Certainly, with a lot of shots one would gather a few photons to get a non-zero value for those R and G. Mostly I have only one shot, which may show obvious signs of blown shadows if I push them hard enough. If I had a camera with two more stops DR they might not have been blown, and would be cleaner and more colourful too. They would surely not be blown if I added a second (long enough) exposure for the shadows and went HDR, but I rarely bother to bracket exposures.