Every RAW file you keep holds as much as four stops of real detail above SDR white — highlight color and gradation your camera captured, your recovery sliders reached, and every SDR export then rolled off and filed back under paper white.
Our editorial makes the case for true HDR photography: what the term actually means (and what it doesn't), why the displays arrived years before the files, how a gain-map JPEG shows full HDR where it's supported while remaining an ordinary, correct photograph everywhere else — and why the camera itself is now the last SDR link in the chain. With side-by-side SDR/HDR photographs you can judge on your own screen.
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