HDR plugin to automatically create EXR file. For VFX use

Hi lezone,

some answers below:
-If you are taking RAW it would be nice to have them downloadable rather than the JPGS.
yes ofcourse. that is absolutly the plan. Right now I’m still struggeling to get the raw fiels working. Not much stuff on it out there.

-I’d like to be able to set the white point rather than have it set it itself. Often we want to set it to match what the DP is using for the shots or we may want to lock it to daylight or tungsten.
somehow setting the whitepoint from the API is not working. I played around quite a bit with it but in the end didn’t get it to work. The whitepoint set by default is okey. Once all the other stuff is fixed I will look into it again.

-I’d also like to set a center exposure offset. For example, since we are shooting for HDR, we would like to favor detail in the brights by making the center 2 stops under.
hmm interesting, if you shoot your HDR in the right way this shouldn’t be necessary. It should contain the whole dynamice range of the scene. On the app you can set quite a few steps and also you can set the number of stop jumps between brackets. My experience is that on the theta you can easily cover the whole dynamic range. Often you have 2 pics that are fully white. black is a bit harder as the with the lowest iso, shortest shutter it often still contains very bright parts (like the sun).
Do you use this feature often on set? How many exposure do you usually take on your old setup?

-Is there some way to store your setting for the capture? At the moment it’s a bit of a pain as it is to have to change the mode and connect to Wifi every time (which I realize is probably hard to get around). Adding to that the need to do your chosen bracket every time really slows things down. Can it write it to the Z1 Plugin in any way? That way you could take the HDRI without connecting to a laptop or phone to make those setting changes each time.
yes good point error454 and I where discussing this. I’ve added a feature to save your default settings. It will be in the next update.

-What is the color space of the resulting EXR? Looks like sRGB. Is this because of it being made from JPGs? It should probably be linear.
it is sRGB. haven’t really looked into it. It is just the way it comes out of the opencv functions. guess is has to do with what you put into it (which is sRGB in this case). I’ll added it to the list!

Thanx for the feedback!! keep it coming. Hope it is usefull!

Greetings
Kasper