We seem to be at an inflection point where HDR photography could be about to become mainstream.
By this I mean using HDR-capable displays and full bit-rate images edited in the BT.2020 or DCI-P3 color space
Not fake HDR, where the output is still an 8 bit jpeg.
For some time now with a 10 bit (12bit frc) display like my then U2711 we could get a glimpse of what’s hidden in our raw files (with custom software in full screen mode to bypass gpu limitations…)
At this point I realized that one day we will be able to view the 10/12/14 bit data on our raw images eventually. The technology was already getting there in the 2010s but the software ecosystem basically didn’t exist.
Fast forward 15 years and now we can edit HDR images in Lightroom, then export them in the jxl and avif formats. (jxl is 16 bit)
The native windows photo viewer is also already able to handle these xl and avif formats correctly.
What’s seems missing is an online hdr capable gallery.
there is some way for other people to view
Apr 27, 2026 at 05:06 PM
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