Get R now, wait, pass, or switch?

Great Bustard wrote:

sssanti wrote:

Great Bustard wrote:

Truth be told, what I want *far* more than a sensor with more DR is a camera that takes two or more exposures within user-defined constraints and merges them in RAW.

For example, let's say I took a photo of a scene at 24mm f/8 1/200 ISO 100. I'd like the camera to, say, take a photo at 1/50, 1/100, 1/200, 1/400, and 1/800 and merge them all into a single RAW HDR file. Should be easily doable handheld if the lens has IS or the body has IBIS.

Lightroom can do this. It merges multiple raw files you can take with current Canon cameras into a single HDR dng file. Why do you think it is so important to have this done in camera?

Will LR automatically let me take a burst of photos as described in the paragraph I highlighted in bold above?

LR will always let you, but you have to manually set the camera do it

If a camera could do this automatically, I would want to have the individual raw files for each of the exposures. There are very few photos without something moving. Most landscapes have some wind, moving clouds or water that give you ghosting artifacts. Even with IS, you can get motion blur for the longer exposures. I typically take 5 frames for HDR, but often use only 3 or 4 to get the best balance between ghosting and shadow noise.

With high DR sensors, I think that it would be more useful to have a metering mode that would automatically expose to the right without highlight clipping in the raw file.