How does onboard HDR sound on a DSLR?

[benhasajeep]

Pentax K-7. They came up with a couple new ideas. Camera produced HDR shots. One of the newer things I noticed. It is also Weather, dust, and cold sealed. Mid sized sensor 14.6 still, with 5.2 fps. Magnesium chasis. HD movie. Electronic level function for level horizons. 100% coverage view finder, live view. Pentax Raw or Adobe .DNG for raw in camera. In camera embedded copyright function.

$1,300.

 

[adamwilliamking]

Sounds unneccesary.

DPreview wrote:

HDR (high dynamic range) function to create one composite image with an extra-wide gradation range from three images with different exposures.

I believe that this means that you will have the ability to sort of "one-click" process the files in camera, as opposed to you clicking the shutter once and an HDR popping up. I could be wrong though.

 

[Big Mike]

What about Nikon's Active D-lighting?

 

[adamwilliamking]

What about Nikon's Active D-lighting?

What about it? Are you relating this to the possibility of it being able to quickly render an HDR preview for you?

 

[benhasajeep]

"An HDR image capture mode blends three separate image exposures to widen the exposure gamut, bringing out detail in all exposure areas of your images"

With it stating "capture mode" I take it that means press the button once it takes 3 exposure compensated pictures. And combines the 3 seperate exposures to a single file.

 

[adamwilliamking]

"An HDR image capture mode blends three separate image exposures to widen the exposure gamut, bringing out detail in all exposure areas of your images"

With it stating "capture mode" I take it that means press the button once it takes 3 exposure compensated pictures. And combines the 3 seperate exposures to a single file.

Yeah you're right from that description it does sound like thats what it does.

 

[bdavison]

Active D-lighting while it does tweak the dynamic range, is not HDR because there are no compositions of different exposures. It just tweaks the dynamic range similar to tone-mapping or even a curves adjustment.

Its very good at what it does, but not anywhere close to the results of a true HDR image.

 

[epp_b]

They should call it the High, Diseased and Radioactive feature

 

[adamwilliamking]

It seems these camera companies are eating up what we currently call art and making it very disposable.

 

[Overread]

like all auto modes its probably going to be half decent at doing what it says on the box - but for those of us who take things more seriously (ie most site members ) chances are we will still prefer to have the choice of blendings ourselves. Its going to have limits but should be decent for a holiday snaps we don't want to have to edit through

 

[djacobox372]

It seems these camera companies are eating up what we currently call art and making it very disposable.

If a machine can be made to do it... it never was art to begin with.

 

[Mike_E]

I like cheese. I don't like preprocessed cheese.

You'd think that they would want to concentrate on being -regaining their rep as- a great maker of fine cameras instead of worrying about gimmicks to approximate a passing fad.

 

[rufus5150]

I can't wait for the 'SOOC' posts!!! Wooohooo.

 

[SrBiscuit]

ugh...don't like the idea.
i'd rather play with my images myself.

 

[bdavison]

I disagree, Active D-lighting is very very useful. It can really help on high contrast photos to capture all the detail. The results are not "high,diseased or radioactive" at all.