capricorn wrote:Hi Sebastian,
I have read that V2 is going to take some more time because you are rewriting large portions of the orginal code. I am perfectly happy with the current version 1.9 from a image quality point of view, so just take your time
Anyway, there is something that I would really like to see in SNS-HDR, and that is RAW (or better DNG) output. This feature has been added to the latest version of focus stacking software that I use (Helicon), and I find it extremely useful. Not that it saves a lot of disk space, you can also use any kind of post processing options (that eg. LR offers) on this type output. For my stacking applications, I have meanwhile even decided to delete the RAW input files and just keep the DNG output.
Is DNG output (instead of TIFF) something that you would also consider for SNS-HDR, or is it too difficult / time-consuming to implement?
Another improvement that I really would appreciate is even better LR integration. I am using the 3rd party plug-in which lacks the ability to insert the HDR TIFF into the collection from where SNS-HDR has been invoked. It's always tedious to search the HDR from "All images" then manually insert into the collection which holds the input file(s) to create the HDR.
But I guess you're not the right person to address this issue?
Greetings from a very happy user in Germany
Karsten
Karsten, I shouldn't speak for Sebastian, but your request for some sort of raw output is actually not possible per se, because there are no numerical sensor values involved in HDR. Even if you input RAW files for the combine, those are converted into image files. The intermediary file in HDR is 32 bit, but it is an image file, not a raw file. Becuase of that, there is no point in outputting a file other than an image file. 16 bit TIFF files have plenty of values for whatever processing you wish to do.