On 11/19/2012 11:22 PM, Carlos Eduardo G. Carvalho (Cartola) wrote:
2012/11/20 Gnome Nomad <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> I don't think enfuse reduces the dynamic range to 24-bit color. Well, at least I make enfuse do this as I make the output from it in a 24-bit RGB JPG.
Yes, you can do that. I prefer to end with 16-bit TIF.
Surely more information is capable of giving more quality and maybe in some situations I would see some better results, mainly if I use it in the intermediate steps. As far as I've experienced until now I don't even see much need to use raw shooting. I've already tested it some times and when I am shooting a hard scene I shoot raw, but in 90% of the cases I am pretty much satisfied with shooting and working with 24-bit RGB JPGs.
On some images now, I finish by pulling the 16-bit TIF in Luminance HDR and tonemap the image.
I usually only publish on the web. I have already printed some pictures in fine quality and thought that there it could make more visual difference for me, but at the computer screen my poor eyes are satisfied till now :)
You can't really see HDR on display screens or prints, because high-dynamic range means wider dynamic range than display or print technologies can reproduce. HDR is for all of the processing up to the final output. I prefer TIF for that, too, or PNG, just because even at 100% quality, JPG loses color information. But I'm weird about that ...
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