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dbm below explains it better than me. Our brain is just very good at adapting the exposure on the fly which leads to a high DR perception while the eye itself has a DR close to a camera sensor.

 

There are situations where high DR is very valuable and there is no way around it. Try shooting a sunset on the beach where the background is very bright while the foreground being quite dark. Good luck with that.

You mean like this?



(shot in JPG)

Currently, the only way to shoot such scenes is to either use ND grad filters or HDR.

If we had sensors able to capture the whole range of information in these situation, we would have the ability to just take one shot and be able to extract the whole information.

That would be awesome, wouldn't you agree?