RR wrote:
I'm not sure if it's do-able or if it's currently down to computational power in bodies or whatever but instead of taking 3 seperate shots with the shutter closing each time couldn't 3 seperate exposures be computed from one shutter actuation. Follow me if you can & I'll keep the figures simple so you have the best chance of following me.


ie: you want a hdr image of 3 exposures you take one at -1 ev one normal & one +1 ev

lets say your -1 is a one second exposure, mid is 2 secs, & +1 is 4 secs. Is it not possible that instead of taking 3 exposures of 1,2 & 4 secs that you could take one 4 sec image & the camera could record 3 seperate exposures by "saving the data" at the 1 sec & 2 sec point without using the mechanical shutter. After all it is just recording a load of ones & zeros & should be able to work this out. Digital compacts have no mechanical shutter after all.

Now 4 secs is not going to help with movement but when you scale this to high shutter speeds you could freeze motion in HDR also. Surely it's just a matter of the right algorythm & enough computing power & speed to carry this off ?

Just an idea, do you think I need to patent it & get on Dragons Den ?

simonkit wrote:
Interesting stuff...how do you go about achieving this ?

thanks

Simon

Mannesty wrote:
Why bother, you'll get better results doing the same thing in post-processing.

You don't have to use it, just because it's there. This is one of the dumbest features I've seen in any DSLR.