blue_quartz
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Wondering aloud here... Ricoh gave us the "Slight" effect with the latest firmware update, how hard would it be to go the other extreme and bake in an artistic HDR effect?
Using "Strong" on Dynamic Range Compensation only gives a slight HDR-like effect. Using +9 on Vivid (wish there's an 11, ha!) brings the HDR "feel-ness" to somewhere in the realistic range, but not any higher. The Ricoh GR files are already very malleable to begin with, hypothetically having this feature in the GR may mean I can pay lesser attention to my photo editing software...
The only other major post-processing I do with DxO Optics Pro sometimes (besides using its de-noising feature) is to select the "HDR - Artistic" preset for, well, that HDR effect. I'm not sure whether my request here is specific only to Ricoh cameras (maybe there's just no camera with this effect), but what could possibly by the limitation to creating an artistic HDR effect in cameras?
Could it just be a deliberate technical decision by the engineers not to dwell on this part of the camera software, or are we looking at hardware limitations?
BTW I'm referring to HDR from a single photo without exposure bracketing.
Using "Strong" on Dynamic Range Compensation only gives a slight HDR-like effect. Using +9 on Vivid (wish there's an 11, ha!) brings the HDR "feel-ness" to somewhere in the realistic range, but not any higher. The Ricoh GR files are already very malleable to begin with, hypothetically having this feature in the GR may mean I can pay lesser attention to my photo editing software...
The only other major post-processing I do with DxO Optics Pro sometimes (besides using its de-noising feature) is to select the "HDR - Artistic" preset for, well, that HDR effect. I'm not sure whether my request here is specific only to Ricoh cameras (maybe there's just no camera with this effect), but what could possibly by the limitation to creating an artistic HDR effect in cameras?
Could it just be a deliberate technical decision by the engineers not to dwell on this part of the camera software, or are we looking at hardware limitations?
BTW I'm referring to HDR from a single photo without exposure bracketing.