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This lets you take full advantage of maximum color and brightness when outputting your CINEMA 4D
images. Internally, CINEMA 4D renders with substantially higher color and brightness (98-Bit / pixel)
than can be realized on a conventional RGB image.
This limitation does not exist for images rendered to the HDRI format.
The following formats are able to read this color depth:
 Radiance (HDR)
 OpenEXR
 BodyPaint 3D (rendered with 32-Bit/channel)
 TIFF (rendered with 32-Bit/channel)
 PSD (rendered with 32-Bit/channel). These images can only be opened with Photoshop
CS2.
Using applications that can work with these formats will put you at a great advantage.
So, what is all this good for?
Well, there are several uses:
1. HDR formats can be used as photo processing formats when compositing.
Ordinary monitors or printers, though, cannot display this depth of color; they
use conventional color depth. One disadvantage of conventional color depths
is the limitation in brightness. For example, an RGB value of 255, 255, 255 for
the color white is as good as it gets. Let’s say you want to darken an image in
post-production that contains a white area, e.g. a surface brightly lit by sunlight
through a window. The white area will turn gray, even though the actual color
of the surface should start showing through.