My Sony A7IV also captures HEIFs instead of JPEGs (in addition to RAWs), but I haven’t looked closely enough at the Sony HEIF files to say for sure whether it i

My Sony A7IV also captures HEIFs instead of JPEGs (in addition to RAWs), but I haven’t looked closely enough at the Sony HEIF files to say for sure whether it is producing HDR photos or not. Regardless, the RAW files have plenty of range that I would expect modern RAW processing software to be able to emit HDR photos from them. My use of the word “even” was really meant to be a reprimand of the camera industry. If even an iPhone can do this, a “proper” camera should be able to do it even better. Extended dynamic range is incredibly important to make images photorealistic. Being limited to SDR should be pretty embarrassing for any photo-related company in 2022. But, that’s just like my opinion.