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"path": "/2026/05/01/photographers-need-to-stop-worshiping-dynamic-range/",
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"textContent": "Photography has always had a weakness for metrics, but dynamic range has taken on a peculiar authority in the digital era. It is treated not just as a specification, but as a verdict. Cameras are ranked, dismissed, or praised based on differences of less than a stop, as if such a number alone could determine the quality of an image.\n\n[Read More]",
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