Is cr2hdr.exe from Dec, 2013 the latest/greatest for general use of Dual-ISO?

Started by l_d_allan, April 30, 2015, 08:48:00 PM

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l_d_allan

I'm been quite pleased with the use of cr2hdr.exe with Dual-ISO.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I wanted to check if the version from 16+ months ago (Dec, 2013) is still the latest/greatest?

I've seen references to 20-bit versions, and mentions of beta's that have to be compiled to use.

Also, I can't tell from the file-names in the Bit-Bucket if they have anything to do with cr2hdr.exe. Is one of those an updated cr2hdr.exe?

Some other questions:

  • Does the cr2hdr plug-in to LightRoom add any functionality?
  • Is anyone experiencing the Previews in Adobe Bridge and ACR to be slow and hard to use?
  • In Adobe Bridge, the thumbnails have false-colors and can be rather grainy looking.
  • That's also true with using the SlideShow to try to figure out which images are keepers and rejects.
  • ...
  • Also, in ACR, it can be sloooooow for all the "instructions" to be applied to the image.
  • A normal image is almost instant when you go from one image to the next, as far as seeing what has been done to the image.
  • With a Dual-ISO image, it can take 5 to 10+ seconds for the post-processing to show up.
  • That seems most likely with "complicated instructions" like Gradients, Local-Adjustments, Radial-Filters, Masks, etc.
  • Overall, post-processing with Dual-ISO .dng's in ACR can be very sluggish.
  • Am I doing something wrong? Or is that "as expected"?

Licaon_Kter

The latest build ( Experimental 20-bit version ) is from March 2015, see the first post of the main thread: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/?topic=7139.0

l_d_allan

Is the cr2hdr.exe from 2015-Nov-14 the preferred version to use with dual-iso .cr2's on Windows computers?

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=7139.msg157485#msg157485

Reply #2667 by dfort.