Before/after: LR4.1 for 32-bit HDR images - wow!

I have given the new support in LR4.1 for 32-bit HDR images a try. I'm very impressed.
Here's an old version (Photomatix I think) of an HDR I shot a few years ago:
Not so bad, huh?
Now look what I could do after creating a 32-bit tiff and importing into Lightroom:
The new defringing is awesome to have. The fringes can become so very visible otherwise when making HDR.
I've got all the gory details of how I did this on my blog:
http://davidnaylor.org/blog/2012/05/lightroom-4-32-bit-hdr-editing/
Anyone else who has given this a spin?

Actually, I think I may have been wrong there. I believe I actually used
Photoshop to develop the old version. Even so, I prefer Lightroom's output
to anything Photomatix would produce.
Den 3 maj 2012 00:46 skrev "Susan S." <[email protected]>:
Re: Before/after: LR4.1 for 32-bit HDR images - wow! created by Susan
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