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HDR with RAW

Started Feb 6, 2020 | Questions thread
Roland Karlsson Forum Pro • Posts: 30,035
Re: Single photo not really HDR
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Fotoni wrote:

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:

I am not sure you are right. I only think HDR means mapping a high dynamic range image to a smaller dynamic range, matching the output medium. If the original comes from 1, 2, 3 or more shots does not really matter.

But sure, if the camera has an HDR mode it usually means taking three images.

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