I recently obtained one of the new 16" Macbook Pros. The "Liquid Retina XDR" (mini-LED) display is really impressive when viewing 4K HDR videos. This got me to thinking: Is it possible to edit raw files from my D850 to display a similarly wide dynamic range, specifically when making photo slide shows that run on the MBP, or on an HDR TV? If so, which software would I use?
Capture One, and several other products, are capable of doing a "merge-to-HDR" process. But this process is usually intended to combine several images, made at different exposures, into a final image that is tone-mapped into a
smaller dynamic range, for print or sRGB web output. I'm looking for a photo editing process that produces final images which fully exploit the wide tone range available on an HDR display (mini-LED or OLED).
Some image editing apps are now including features to enable some form of editing for HDR output: for example, Photoshop, Pixelmator Pro, and Apple's Photos. I don't see such an explicit option in Capture One 22. Can Capture One be used for this purpose? If so, how? If not, I would be interested in learning tips about how it could be done in other apps.
Austin Mann has a few comments about this topic, in his
blog post about the new M1 Macbook Pros.
