70D HDR menu greyed out.

I've been reading about the HDR mode menu settings, but on my camera, this is greyed out. I've tried all modes except the auto modes. I can get backlit HDR in the scene menu, but that's all. What do I need to do to enable this menu?
Regards,
Col.

I'm not familiar with the 70D but are you shooting in raw? Maybe it only works with JPEG. Something to try anyway.

El Pedro wrote in post #17303788
I'm not familiar with the 70D but are you shooting in raw? Maybe it only works with JPEG. Something to try anyway.

Spot on El Pedro. I googled it. Thanks.

Glad I could help. Deep in the memory banks I think I've seen the same question pop up before.

http://www.canon.co.uk …?type=manuals&l​anguage=EN

It always helps to read manual.

Earth to Canon: people who understand/need HDR would sooner shoot their mothers than shoot jpg!

El Pedro wrote in post #17303788
I'm not familiar with the 70D but are you shooting in raw? Maybe it only works with JPEG. Something to try anyway.

Don't know about the 70D, but the 5D3 will shoot HDR with the camera in raw mode. The resulting in-camera HDR image is a JPEG, but the shot(s) can be taken in raw mode. And if you have it set to save the HDR source images you get them as raw files.

There are other reasons that the 5D3 HDR menu might be ghosted, but I can't remember them at the moment.

Would be nice if Magic Lantern developers can sort this out and make Raw an option when the software becomes available for the 70D.

My 70D definitely does not do HDR in RAW mode, only in JPG. I find it annoying having to switch to JPG, then (in a different menu) activate HDR, the undo both changes later. The camera should behave like the 5D3, as mentioned in another post in this thread. Apparently, it will save the RAW images as well as generating a JPG with HDR.

I would use HDR more frequently if there was a faster way to switch.

I tried using the custom function settings on the mode dial to create one with HDR, but it didn't work. Perhaps I should try it again.

People who understand/need HDR would rather take 3 separate RAW shots and do the work manually in Photomatix, Photoshop etc, tweaking to their pleasure and tastes, rather than rely on generic in-camera HDR, regardless of JPEG or RAW! In my opinion Canon got it right here. The vast majority of people who will use HDR in-camera are just taking snapshots, for which JPEG is more than enough.

A little help would be to set up your custom menu in the 70D and include both the switching to JPEG and toggling HDR in it. Still a 2 step action but less menus to go through.

nighthawk82 wrote in post #17316148
People who understand/need HDR would rather take 3 separate RAW shots and do the work manually in Photomatix, Photoshop etc, tweaking to their pleasure and tastes, rather than rely on generic in-camera HDR, regardless of JPEG or RAW! In my opinion Canon got it right here. The vast majority of people who will use HDR in-camera are just taking snapshots, for which JPEG is more than enough.

A little help would be to set up your custom menu in the 70D and include both the switching to JPEG and toggling HDR in it. Still a 2 step action but less menus to go through.

Hmm, can I do it in 2 steps using the q button? 2 steps, but more button presses. The easiest thing for cannon to have done was to have put a HDR mode on the dial that switched it to JPEG. Or put raw compatibility in the HDR mode.