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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 444138" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>I don't think I said that at all.  I said it rather clearly in my first post today.  Fact is, you can't use Lightroom alone to get "everything" out of any file.  What you can do is produce a 32-bit HDR merged file rather easily, and that's awesome.  What you do with it from there is up to you, but in general you'll likely want to use an HDR program for anything other than a pure natural looking image.  And my point is that if you're going to do that, there's really no reason to do the merge in LR.  But if you shoot bracketed series as a normal thing then premerging as an HDR file with no toning will give you a lot more light information for "normal" processing, in LR or anywhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>