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HDR stands for high dynamic range photography. It combines a series of frames taken at different exposures to capture a much wider dynamic (brightness) range than the camera could capture with a single exposure. These exposures are merged using HDR software. The term is also used in video, though here the meaning is different. HDR video is simply captured and displayed with a much higher brightness range than older cameras or TV screens could reproduce.

Dynamic range and exposure

September 22, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Dynamic range is the camera sensor’s ability to capture detail in very bright and very dark parts of a scene. Cameras (or sensors) with a low dynamic range record dark shadows as a solid black or bright highlights as a featureless white. In the days of film, this was known as a film’s ‘exposure latitude’. […]

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