SNS-HDR Pro 2.0 Alpha 3

[capricorn]

I am eagerly waiting for this as well. Obviously version 2 does not support command line arguments yet.

Sebastian, can you make a statement by when you intend to add this feature? Also, will command line support be backwards compatible? If not the LR plugin users will need to find a way to get the plugin adapted...

Many thanks for your great work, Sebastian - I'm wishing you a very Happy New Year!!

[Redcrown]

I've been traveling and out of touch. Happy to see Alpha3 when I came home.

In the previous discussion of Alpha1 I offered some videos that showed a few problems. I'm happy to report that the main problem is solved in Alpha3. No more artifacts (posterization, banding) with dark detail against bright backgrounds - fine tree branches against sky.

Thanks for listening, Sebastian, and good work on this issue.

Now I focus on alignment and deghosting. The alignment in Alpha3 seems OK. As good as other programs. Good enough to avoid pre-aligning images before input to SNS. But deghosting still remains a big problem.

SNS is no worse or no better than other programs (like Adobe or Photomatix). It is obvious that deghosting is a very difficult challenge that no one has solved. In most cases the results are not useable, and much manual cloning is needed to produce a final image.

The work-around solution is to do as much as possible to avoid ghosts. Shoot was few frames as possible and as fast as possible. Better to raise the ISO to get faster shutter speeds and deal with the noise than using low ISO and deal with ghosts.

I would recommend that you change the label "Priority brighter images". That term makes no sense to the English speaking audience. Especially when every other program calls it what it is - "Deghosting." While you may be giving priority to brighter images to do the deghosting, it is still just deghosting.

[dieter53]

Hi Sebastian,
I am back home again and I uploaded one of the exr files where Alpha 3 cannot treat the blacks.
You can find it here
http://filebin.net/xsfebetdld
The file is OK for version 1.4.22
Dieter

[TrevorS87]

Whenever I try to run a set of RAWS from my Sony A7rII this is the result I get. http://i.imgur.com/ATYsofC.jpg

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, not sure what the issues is here.

[Sebastian Nibisz]

I would recommend that you change the label "Priority brighter images".

I'll change this label.

You can find it here http://filebin.net/xsfebetdld

Thanks for the files, I will try to fix this.

Whenever I try to run a set of RAWS from my Sony A7rII this is the result I get. http://i.imgur.com/ATYsofC.jpg

This camera is not supported yet.

[TrevorS87]

Thank you for the quick reply Sebastian.

One more error I'm having, when processing TIFF files from my A7rII is when I select prioritize brighter exposures or the deghosting, I get random green areas in my images.

Here is an example http://imgur.com/nTYt6ez

any idea why the deghosting may be causing this issue? As I really want to be able to use the deghosting feature.

thanks again

[Sebastian Nibisz]

What is the exposure step?
What is color space?

[TrevorS87]

colorspace is sRGB, I shoot in RAW then convert to TIFF through camera raw.

Exposure step is 2. I do a 3 image bracket, -2, 0. +2

[Whidbeypix]

A quick test indicates that this is successful with ARW files from my Sony A7RM2, which was not the case with the production version. I was getting strange color.

Thanks for that.

[Darkbeat]

I have a Sony A7II and if you use compressed files, it works great, but if I use uncompressed files, the progam fails with a file with strange colors.