How to Use dynamic range in a Sentence

dynamic range

noun
  • Tube limiters — which attenuate the dynamic range of a sound — were absolutely not permitted.
    Marah Eakin, Vulture, 9 May 2024
  • Motorola's phone still has some issues with color—in the picture of the street with the big tree, the green is abnormal, and the phone struggles with high dynamic range (keeping the sky from blowing out).
    Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 9 July 2024
  • The flat look records with little saturation and contrast to provide the most leeway editing exposure and color, the profile captures 14 stops of dynamic range.
    Jim Fisher, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
  • An image's dynamic range refers to the range of the darkest to the brightest light within the image.
    Spoon U, Teen Vogue, 23 Feb. 2018
  • It's even got high-dynamic range—darks are darker and brights are brighter!
    Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The dynamic range, the highlight and shadow recovery, the speed, the silent shutter mode.
    Natalie B. Compton, The Know, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Some of that has to do with the album’s uniform mood and limited dynamic range.
    Mark Richardson, WSJ, 19 June 2019
  • While the eyes and brain can handle scenes with such high dynamic range, cameras struggle.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2014
  • There is also a mode to enhance video games and provide HDR (high dynamic range) if the video source supports it.
    Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2021
  • This leaves code values below black and above white levels to preserve the entire dynamic range of the film.
    Chuck Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2019
  • This achieves true 4K video with vivid high dynamic range colors while text looks crisp from any angle.
    Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
  • Its main purpose is, as its name suggests, to create a higher dynamic range—that is, a bigger gap between the dark parts of a scene and the bright parts.
    Whitson Gordon, Wired, 25 Dec. 2020
  • These speakers offer a suitable dynamic range—around 80 Hz—in a simple plug-and-lay set-up.
    Popular Science, 19 Dec. 2019
  • With digital audio, a few mouse clicks can compress the dynamic range with brute force.
    Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
  • This should, of course, work wonders on the XW5000ES’s potential with high dynamic range content.
    John Archer, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Some might support high-dynamic range (HDR) while others do not.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The device can now capture Dolby Vision video, which makes video brighter, with more dynamic range.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 13 July 2021
  • The end result: Music rendered in the sort of dynamic range and crystal-clear distinction that moves people nearly to tears—or all the way to dance.
    Vogue, 17 Jan. 2018
  • In short, photos captured by the 9 Pro look clean, with excellent dynamic range.
    Ben Sin, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • High dynamic range images are a composite of at least two, but sometimes up to five or six images.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2019
  • All told, the iPhone 14 Pro camera will deliver crisper photos with more vivid detail, less noise, and more dynamic range.
    Yoni Heisler, BGR, 12 May 2022
  • For my ears, the dynamic range was excessive, with louds getting too loud and forced — and often too soon — for music that wants more control.
    Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The brand claims 121 decibels of dynamic range and a broad range of frequency built into a polished steel and aluminum alloy body.
    Gideon Grudo, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Most iPhones can also record video in 4K, some with extended dynamic range for a better depth of color.
    Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The extreme dynamic range of density is what gives the universe order.
    Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
  • With a few exceptions, the vast majority of the world’s movie theaters project films in standard dynamic range.
    Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Luisi favored a big dynamic range in the symphony, and lots of nuance between extremes.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2020
  • In fact, the company recently released a brand new tape that has a wider dynamic range; there’s already a strong demand for the product.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Apollo's Singers, 26 in number but sounding like many more, were supple and subtle, alert to a wide dynamic range and sensitive to the drama of the music.
    Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The games will be presented in high dynamic range (HDR), which provides greater picture contrast and more vivid color.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023

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