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Bynx

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This is just a question I have. When I watch tv and a program like CSI when there are aerial shots of Las Vegas, Miami or New York at night the images are incredible and look exactly like HDR. Do the film or cameras used have increased range over our DSLR's?
 
Perhaps they shoot digital video instead of film, and process the video.
 
They have been using HDR techniques for a very long time. Long before the internet and digital world " discovered" the technique.

Check out Christian Bloch's book "THe HDRI Handbook", there is a discussion about this very use.
 
This is only a screen shot of a low quality image. Had I the high quality Im sure it would be a thousand percent better than this. But it is approaching HDR to me although this is really a bad example. Seeing the actual moving sequence much more details are visible.

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HDR video is made just the same way that HDR photos are one over one zero and one under , two or three cams or the other way CSI is doing it raw video and gamma correction hence back to the drama that you cannot make a hdr from one single photo but I dont wanna get that one started there are plenty of articles to read if you look this took about 3 secs to find it
HDR video accomplished using dual 5D Mark IIs, is exactly what it sounds like -- Engadget
 
Thats a sweet camera. But at $25,000 its a bit pricey for me and my use.
Were you looking for suggestions on purchase, or just what they might have used?



Maybe it's as simple as selective tone mapping in post
Or like burn/dodge.
Or what about those ND filters that are selective, I forgot what they are called.

Just some random solutions I'm thinking of.
 
Patrick, I was just wondering how they got movies with the same clarity, and exposure control we get with dslr after we put our pics through programs like Photomatix. But I guess if cinema cameras have multiple sensors and thus a much greater dynamic range then that accounts for it.
 
they shoot with digital HD cameras and edit the film after wards. You can get an hdr effect from single exposures too. Lots of back end editing. This is why those scenes are usually very short. But you can do true HDR filming with multiple cameras. Ive seen it done with two 5d mark II's. Pretty amazing stuff.
 

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