Hi guys! Could someone please help me troubleshoot an issue?
The issue is:
here is what my converted Dual ISO CR2 should've probably looked like (this is a jpeg of its ---debug-blend fullres.dng)
And
here is what it looks like when coverted in LR via this plugin. (
Here it is stopped down to -2EV to illustrate how clipped the highlights are.)
Iterestingly, when I replace the original exiftool 10.43 from cr2hdr.3.0-170316-02-MLV-DEV with exiftool 10.02 from cr2hdr-win 2017-12-04, this issue goes away and the imported file looks as it should (however, this other exiftool version is incompatible with the LR plugin, which leads to metadata problems within LR, so it's not a real solution). I forgot to mention that the issue remained even when I replaced cr2hdr.exe bundled with the original plugin with that newer standalone version.
But the real revelation is that the same DNG imported into Photoshop looks perfectly OK. So, presumably, this is some kind of issue with EXIF metadata that forces Lightroom to import the file with blown highlights?
Here is the original DualiSO CR2, and
here is the folder with all the files one might need to investigate this issue (debug DNGs, cr2hdr log, plugin and standalone cr2hdr archives, etc.). My camera is 70D, Lightroom Classic v10.3.
At face value, this looks like the
issue mentioned by another uses back in 2017, though I don't see whether they solved it at all.