Originally posted by WMBP
Sorry, I don't understand what y'all are talking about. Is there an "HDR" feature in the K20D? I've never noticed it.
There is of course the extended or enhanced dynamic range feature. (
Pentax itself can't figure out what to call this, apparently.) This supposedly gets better detail in the highlights. I have never been able to tell if it's really doing anything at all. This feature is enabled in the ISO setting screen accessed via the Fn button. I think this feature is sometimes given the acronym "EDR."
But that's not the same thing as "HDR" at all, is it? And the distinction matters, because
the K7 does in fact have something like real HDR capability built into the camera.
Will
Will, if you shoot RAW, you will not see this 'HDR' filter (or any other filter) as an option to you. You need to either convert a RAW image to JPEG or shoot JPEG to see the option. When playing back a JPEG, press the Fn key and flick left for filter options.
There you will see a myriad of filter selections you can make, one of which is the 'HDR' filter, which apparently tries to mimic the HDR effect. It creates more halos than anything else IMO and so I don't use it at all.
D-Range is something else altogether, used when exposing a shot, and designed to allow for a larger DR to be incorporated within the camera's recordable DR - thereby slightly decreasing contrast in the resultant image (a side effect for extending DR).
This serves to try and preserve as much strong highlight detail there may be in an image (like a landscape in broad daylight) but is quite limited in the ability to enhance shadow detail, as true HDR shines at doing.
edit: beaten to it by Rondec...