Thanks for all that information, Garth ...
... it'll take me a little while to go through it.
Chris
On 12 Aug 2007, at 15:39, Garth Wood wrote:
> Something else I should have mentioned -- Photomatix, like many apps
> available over the Web these days, has a demo version available on
> their
> website you can play with. It doesn't handle Olympus camera raws very
> well IMHO (it seems to be biased towards Canon and Nikon raw formats),
> so I first use PS CS3's ACR to create a 16-bit TIFF of the three (or
> more) Olympus images I want to create an HDR image out of, then
> combine
> and manipulate those TIFFs in Photomatix.
>
> I've tried using Photomatix on a burst of three images exposed at
> -1, 0
> and +1 EV on the E-410, but really, the "spread" of dynamic range in
> those three images isn't that huge, so it doesn't show the details
> very
> dramatically. On the other hand, the E-1 has the capability of
> taking a
> five-frame burst at -2, -1, 0, +1 and +2 EV, which is better for
> combining into an HDR (you can just use the -2, 0 and +2 frames), but
> with (say) a Canon 5D, you can program a burst of -4, -2, 0, +2 and +4
> EV, and now you're cookin' with Mazola! I've seen some jaw-dropping
> output from such an exposure series after being run through
> Photomatix.
>
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