I think, Zymon, you are making it sound more difficult than it is.
I was asked to photograph a conservatory. The walls are to be repainted so I was told to concentrate on the windows and to include a shot of the windows through a mirror. Clearly HDR was an option as it might improve the visibility of the garden beyond the windows.
It took me less than ten minutes to take a dozen bracketed triples. I used my Panasonic GH2 with the 7-14mm zoom - handheld.
I shot RAW and converted the 36 files into tiffs using LightRoom with a flat pre-set. The tiffs were 1920 by 1440 pixels as all I needed were shots I could put in a web folder from which my client could choose one shot for a magazine.
The Lightroom work took about a minute. I then ran the batch of 36 into SNS-HDR producing jpgs and sns files. The twelve shots took about a quarter of an hour (not time to go to bed - but time to make a coffee). Most would have been useable jpgs but I chose to go through the files using the sns versions and tweak them a bit - adding maybe a bit more saturation or brightness.
The shots are now on:-
http://www.tonygamble.org/Conservatory% ... /index.htmAnd my client will pick the frame she prefers - maybe with the request to make the colour/saturation/contrast etc more like one of the others.
I'll then re-run that single file to produce a higher resolution jpg.
The trick for speed is not to force SNS-HDR to work with files larger than you need for immediate use. If you want a hundred high res files then you are into overnight work. As I said in a earlier post on my machine 100 shots will take about 16 hours.
Yes, you have to make sure that your folder contains the right files for the (in my case) triples. I am not sure what would happen if a rogue single file got into the sequence - maybe Sebastian can tell us.
Any help?
Tony