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Photographers Need to Stop Worshiping Dynamic Range

Photographers Need to Stop Worshiping Dynamic Range

Snow-covered trees and a frosty landscape are reflected in a calm, clear lake, with a tall, snow-capped mountain in the background under a bright blue sky.

Photography has always had a weakness for metrics, but dynamic range has taken on a peculiar authority in the digital era. It is treated not just as a specification, but as a verdict. Cameras are ranked, dismissed, or praised based on differences of less than a stop, as if such a number alone could determine the quality of an image.

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