DRO vs HDR

Both DRO and HDR share in common that they are ways to handle wide ranges of brightness. They each have their pros and cons:

• DRO requires only a single image from the sensor, so shots are fast to take, and fine for scenes with movement, unlike HDR.

• Photos will still take longer to process compared with Standard photo mode, but it will still be faster than HDR.

• HDR will in general be better at scenes with a high range of brightness values. It can take advantage of the information from three separate images, rather than reprocessing a single image.

• DRO is available on both old and Camera2 APIs (though it still requires Android 5.0).