I love HDR and this is a great pod, personally I use the 32 Bits version of Photomatix pro 3.2 and take my different exposures using a standard Fujifilm A235 Digital camera but the final image is awesome after some editing.
single photo, hdr, this photo was almost blown, but I got a lot back, I am trying to get 64 bit hdr editing right now, but so hard to find, I think true 64 bit hdr editing will come out next year, so only 32 bit for now. Most of yesterday's TVs and computer screens form images by varying the intensity of just three primary colors: red, green, and blue. Bright yellow, for example, is composed of equal parts red and green, with no blue component. However, this is only an approximation, and is not as saturated as actual yellow light. For this reason, recent technologies such as Texas Instruments's BrilliantColor augment the typical red, green, and blue channels with up to three others: cyan, magenta and yellow. Mitsubishi and Samsung, among others, use this technology in some TV sets. Assuming that 8 bits are used per color, such six-color images would have a color depth of 48 bits. So with the new tv's i will be able to display and show a really 48 bit image, the difference would be amazing, I don't watch tv at all, but i walked by one the other day, and say the commercial for the tv that added yellow, and I knew they where going after the same thing. So everything that I am working on will all come together very nicely in the future, i cant wait. Basically when I talk about 8 bit and 64 bit hdr, I am talking about the math that the computer uses to do all of the calculations on the information with-in the pixel packet, most cameras record at 8 bit, so that is like very basic crappy math, very short like 34 + 66 = bla bla bla, but in say 64 bit math, those numbers now are giving decimal values and so turning 34 + 66 = in to 34.4342532483628746376482638748324326567328 + 66.4423562865437624823632487832232332233223 so you can see how much of a difference there is in how the computer looks at the info that it has to deal with, I hope that makes sense at all. lol matt
Aah, yeah, some sites do make things a lil difficult to understand. Havn't gotten a new one just yet, I'm waiting to see what the upgrade for the D700 looks like & hopefully by then I'll have a bit of cash saved up for it. Quite cool that ppl are opening up to HDR's tho, my 1st HDR POD got sooo much shit for being "over editied".
Doesn't topaz do this aswell? I want to see it non hdr, I really don't like hdr at all. It ruins the fact that without the hdr its still an awesome shot, but the hdr effect overshadows that fact.
except that you're starting with an image that is maximum 14 bit from a digital SLR, or even 8 bit as you said, and as you said as well there is not much out there that can show 32 bit, even 16 bit is kind of hard to come by for a screen. So everything is an approximation... So it's approximately a great looking image, I love the tree...
lol ian, i play with approximation, i use a eizo 16 bit monitor, big diff from the old ones, I have been looking for a 48 bit monitor, but i can not find one, i heard one time that they are real, do you know anything about them? www.eizo.com/global/products/coloredge/cg243w/index.html
Barco makes a 30 bit reference monitor (10 bit) with 48 bit processing and your monitor is 30 bit (10 bit x 3) as well, just with 16 bit processing. There are some super nice medical imaging monitors but nothing that really comes close to a real 48 bit screen, haven't even heard of anything like that.