SNS-HDR Pro 2.0 Alpha 3

[Sebastian Nibisz]

Did you tried to reduce the Blacks parameter?

[dieter53]

Yes, I did, Sebastian. But even when I reduce the blacks to -100 I still get areas that are totally black.
Regards, Dieter

[Sebastian Nibisz]

Can you send me the EXR file?

[TrevorS87]

Any idea when the raws from the Sony A7rII will be supported, also when I select prioritize brighter exposures with tiff files from A7rII, I get random green color casts through certain parts of the images.

Sample Image here
http://imgur.com/nTYt6ez

[navydoc]

This version of SNS-HDR has always worked with my Sony a7rII raw files. That's why I was so excited to see this software being upgraded to the new version. I'm looking forward to the final product and a big salute to Sebastian for all his hard work.

Here's a recent image from my a7rII using the aplpha 3 version. It's a 5 exposure HDR image from the local RR Museum. Shot handheld on my a7rII + Batis 25/f2 lens. Ev seperation was 2 stops between each exposure. I used an aperture value of f5.6 for this bracketed series of exposures.

https://flic.kr/p/Bv4cwF

[Murray Foote]

The version 2 Alpha looks good but I encountered one problem. I generated a file but it has stripped out the date and time. This is an issue for me because I am currently working in Lightroom on a folder with 3,300 images sorted by date/time.

[Stiga]

Murray, I don't think you will have to wait long. Obviously Sebastian has it in mind to give you a choice on what data is stored with your image.

EXIF and GPS are greyed out at the moment but may be they will be available in 2 alpha 4!

Martin

[Murray Foote]

OK, thanks!

[den]

Having recently acquired a Win10-64bit [latest updates] computer system, I tried "SNS-HDR Pro 2 alpha 3" and "SNS-HDR Pro 1.4.22.1" using a single Fuji X100T RAF file...

1) a single Fuji X100T RAF file was converted to virtual -1.5ev, 0ev, and +1.5ev 16-bit tiffs using Fuji's "Raw File Converter Ex 2.0" with its lens corrections for Chromatic Aberration and Distortion... ...note: my experience with current DCRAW 9.26 based conversions of Fuji X-Trans sensor RAF files while adequate do not have the nuances that can be obtained using Fuji's "Raw File Converter Ex 2.0".

2) the 3 virtual exposure tiffs were dragged/dropped onto a "SNS-HDR Pro 2 alpha 3" desk top icon resulting with the program opening but failed to open the images in the work space [failed to display an "Open image" dialog]... ...Is this a characteristic of Win10? It does not happen with Vista and a desk top icon for "SNS-HDR Pro 1.4.22.1".

3) the 3 virtual exposures tiffs were then dragged/dropped into the opened "SNS-HDR Pro 2 alpha 3" workspace and the program started to merge/tone-map after selecting "Open image" options...

4) the "SNS-HDR Pro 2 alpha 3" Default preset was used and the resulting sRGB 16-bit tiff saved.

5) for comparison, step3) and step 4) were repeated using "SNS-HDR Pro 1.4.22.1"

6) the resulting "SNS-HDR Pro 2 alpha 3" merge/tone-map image was further processed in an external editor for preference tone, contrast, and color...

The results... ...down-sized/slightly sharpened for illustration/posting purposes:

TulipFestival_MtVernon_WA_USA__31Mar2015.jpg (230.07 KiB) Viewed 14422 times

Observations...
1) the "SNS-HDR Pro 2 alpha 3" resulting image has less contrast and darker tones than that of the"SNS-HDR Pro 1.4.22.1" resulting image... ...but this made it more easy to obtain preference without obvious halos when brightening and increasing contrasts of specific image areas with the external editor...
2) the "SNS-HDR Pro 2 alpha 3" resulting image did not require noise reduction for the sky/cloud image areas as is a preference for the " SNS-HDR Pro 1.4.22.1" resulting image...
3) with a little more experimenting with the editing options of "SNS-HDR Pro 2 alpha 3" Default preset, I believe I could achieve essentially duplicate results as those of the 'external editor'...
4) processing time using "SNS-HDR Pro 2 alpha 3" is greatly reduced when compared to
"SNS-HDR Pro 1.4.22.1" and Vista Home Premium 32-bit...

Sebastian... ...a great achievment... ...your efforts are appreciated... ...looking forward to the non-Alpha/Beta version

...den...
Windows 10 Home v1511 [latest updates]
AMD A10-8700 Radeon R6, 10 ComputeCores 4C+6G, 1.8GHz
64 bit Operating System, x64-based processor
8 GB RAM
1000 GB HD

[mhardisty]

One thing I have still not been able to do is export a bracket set from Lightroom to SNS-HDR 2.0. Lightroom goes through the motion of exporting, SNS-HDR starts but the exported files never appear in SNS-HDR.

Previously I was able to do this with Version 1.