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Posted Mar 18, 2007 20:19 UTC (Sun) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
In reply to: professionals by qu1j0t3
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux

There's a reason why highlights are blown out.

Sure. Because film and CMOS-censors share a weakness: they are incapable of capturing a high dynamic range.

Your eye can easily look at the face of your loved one, standing in a shadowed room, infront of a beautiful sunlit panorama, and enjoy the entire scene.

No camera, film or digital, can capture details *both* in the shadowed face of a person *and* on the sunligth snow-covered mountains outside.

So yes, there's a reason. What is your solution ?


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Posted Apr 7, 2007 2:59 UTC (Sat) by ringerc (guest, #3071) [Link]

In my view the real solution goes way beyond sensors.

We need devices that can display decent dynamic range, and wider adoption of file formats with more colour representation that's a better match for human vision (eg exponential colour). Without that, we're going to have a very hard time producing, working with, and displaying true HDR (as opposed to flattened-to-low-DR like in the article) images.

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