Hyperlight: What is it actually doing?

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

< if the Hyerlight shooting-mode feature is new to you, hit up youtube for an introduction >

This sound cool, but for me, it has a big disadvantage: it is internally processed into a JPG, but there are no options for DNGs (either the processed image or the individual shots used for processing)

So for those of us that don't mind just taking the RAW shots ourselves and doing the same things, can we determine what those steps would be?

As far as I can tell, we would need to know two things:

• The camera settings for each shot (is it bracketed exposure or ISO? other settings?)
• What it's doing in processing (that we can duplicate in post processing in our own computer-based editors) -- is it basically similar to HDR merging?

Ideas?

Thanks, Chris

 

[Paul2660]

No doubt it’s doing some internal processing on the file. For low light shots it’s a very nice option. The noise reduction is quite good without much loss in detail.

Paul C

 

[Dakrisht]

It’s adding noise reduction and smoothness for low-lit shots as well as ramping up the exposure, shadows and dropping the highlights. Also plays with the color temp a bit.

All things you can do in Lightroom but nice quick and easy mode for those instant night shots.