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HDR with RAW

Started Feb 6, 2020 | Questions thread
Fotoni Senior Member • Posts: 1,091
Single photo not really HDR

Usually HDR means higher than what camera can do with a single photo. Why call something HDR, if it is normal performance? Decent dynamic range has been there for several years and little improvement since then. HDR is not the same as lightening shadows strongly with post-processing which either produce noisy mess or the scene has low contrast which is not really HDR either.

The main reason for HDR and HDRish post-processing confusion is that many displays have low dynamic range or are very small to make the difference between HDR and fake HDR:

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