However, on my test images I cannot see any improvement on a one shot processed with Ultimate and it ends up a lot more work and disk space usage.
Jeff,
From time to time, Terry and I share images run through a program called SNS, a very excellent HDR program.
From time to time, we *think* we find an image that seemed to improve upon the results we can get using Ultimate, and when we look again, there's a lot of extraneous noise and artifacts that were not present in the image rendered by Qimage Ultimate.
Sometimes, people look at an HDR processed image, and see an initial WOW factor that is quickly forgotten when it is measured at the cost of the image quality.
I will let Terry comment on his feelings.
Fred