Looks af if DRI and HDR weren't quite the same. At least not in the software I'm using. Whereas HDR combines several shots into a file with an enormous dynamic range which can neither be printed nor viewed on a monitor with all this information and thus needs another step called tone-mapping to be useable for screen or paper output, DRI simply uses a clever masking technique to fill up the blown-out highlights from the frames taken at the longer exposure times with information extracted from those taken with shorter times.
The results look in fact very different. This tone-mapping business produces a very peculiar but inherently unnatural look which seems to be all the rage in some circles, currently, while DRI can produce very natural-looking results if applied sparingly. Here's a b/w example done with DRI: http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/770012/display/8015472 As usual, your comments are welcome. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005 Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
