Preface to the First Edition

The thought of writing this book began with the realization that not a single book existed with the title “HDR? Duh!” While we rejected the idea of this title shortly after, both the idea for this book and its title matured, and now you have the final result in your hands.

High dynamic range imaging is an emerging field and for good reasons. You are either already convinced about that, or we hope to convince you with this book. At the same time, research in this area is an amazing amount of fun, and we hope that some of that shines through as well.

Together, the four authors are active in pretty much all areas of high dynamic range imaging, including capture devices, display devices, file formats, dynamic range reduction, ...

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