How to Use dynamic range in a Sentence

dynamic range

noun
  • It's even got high-dynamic range—darks are darker and brights are brighter!
    — Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Most of it has to do with Apple's treatment of dynamic range.
    — PCMAG, 23 Sep. 2024
  • While the eyes and brain can handle scenes with such high dynamic range, cameras struggle.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2014
  • The format captures loads of dynamic range but also picks up a lot of background noise.
    — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 11 June 2026
  • Some of that has to do with the album’s uniform mood and limited dynamic range.
    — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 19 June 2019
  • With digital audio, a few mouse clicks can compress the dynamic range with brute force.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
  • All four projectors will support high dynamic range video, too.
    — John Archer, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Test recordings are clear, with minimal echo and a fairly wide dynamic range.
    — PCMAG, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The synth lines are bright and punchy but retain adequate nuance to provide a dynamic range.
    — PCMAG, 7 Oct. 2024
  • This provides strong dynamic range for deep-sky shadow recovery.
    — James Abbott, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The extreme dynamic range of density is what gives the universe order.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
  • The dynamic range, the highlight and shadow recovery, the speed, the silent shutter mode.
    — Natalie B. Compton, The Know, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Turning it off keeps the dynamic range closer to the original recording.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025
  • These have larger pixels than full-frame sensors, which means excellent dynamic range.
    — James Abbott, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Some might support high-dynamic range (HDR) while others do not.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The dynamic range has been pulled back, and a hefty amount of image processing is going on to offer a smooth look to the pictures.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Luisi favored a big dynamic range in the symphony, and lots of nuance between extremes.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2020
  • When researchers have bothered to measure the dynamic range of nanoscale resonators, the results have been pretty poor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2018
  • In short, photos captured by the 9 Pro look clean, with excellent dynamic range.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • These six tracks, totaling just a hair over a half hour, are totally devoid of negative space or dynamic range.
    — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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 device can now capture Dolby Vision video, which makes video brighter, with more dynamic range.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 13 July 2021
  • As a result, these materials have high noise floors that narrow their dynamic ranges from the lower boundary side.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2018
  • These speakers offer a suitable dynamic range—around 80 Hz—in a simple plug-and-lay set-up.
    — Popular Science, 19 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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

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