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Unfortunately, FDR Tools will not import the 7D Raw files correctly. With more controls to tweak, FDR Tools produced more natural results. In my previous review of these HDR programs, my favorite program was FDR Tools. Honestly, I think the original middle exposure image looked better than CS4’s HDR image. The images did eventually process with mixed results. I rebooted and tried to process the images again with nothing else running. I disabled the Auto-align feature and the files did process … very slowly. Whether it is a bug or completely different process, the HDR processing crashed the first time I ran the files. Unfortunately, Photoshop CS4’s HDR processing is not up to the same task. The 7D is not officially supported yet, but the format is similar enough to the 5D Mark II for Photoshop to open. Photoshop CS4 can open the Canon 7D Raw files with the Camera Raw 5.5 update. I was able to import all three RAW files and process the images very quickly with good results! Photomatix 3.2 is the only HDR program which seems to fully support the 7D RAW format. The above set of bracketed images (shot in 7D Raw) were used in all programs. The problem is not all programs fully support the 7D’s Raw format. The 7D is fast enough not to slow you down even with bracketing. If you have the Canon 7D and plan on creating some HDR images, you should plan on shooting in RAW+JPG mode.