I'm still using Machinery for my HDR processing. Overall I'm really happy with the software, particularly in contrast to Photomatix which it beats hands-down in terms of speed and transparency of process. It's ghost removal isn't anywhere near as good but I suppose you can't have everything.
That said, it's had a couple of updates lately up to version 2.8 which have seemingly removed a couple of features that I routinely use to achieve the particular look that I want. First, the 2.7 update (or possibly 2.6) removed a 'midtones' slider from the HDR processing panel and 2.8 seems to have shifted the 'lights' and 'shadows' slider to post-processing rather than having them affect the HDR process itself and I'm struggling to achieve my usual look as a result.
Hopefully I'll find a method to recreate what I could do before, I'd hate to think the product update has meant a genuine loss of functionality.
Update: Seems like the the light/shadow sliders are actually feeding into the HDR process as they did before but I'm still not still not sure that I'm able to use them to get the same contrast in, for example, clouds as I used to be able to without making items in the foreground unworkably dark. I'll keep plugging away at it and also maybe see if I can find an installer for v2.6 while I'm at it. Being able to dual-install both versions would be nice but I don't know how workable that is.
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