How numbers can mislead: a closer look at dynamic range, Part 2

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Photon shot noise (the random nature of light) means that captured images will always be noisy, but a small amount of noise has much more of an impact on the weak signal that makes up the shadow regions of your image than it has against the strong signals making up the highlights. In Part One we looked at what dynamic range is, where

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