Comment by dahart

Good question. I think it depends. They are kind of different concepts, but in practice they can overlap considerably. RAW is about using the camera’s full native color resolution, and not having lossy compression. HDR is overloaded, as you can see from the article & comments, but I think HDR capture is conceptually about expressing brightness in physical units like luminance or radiance, and delaying the ‘exposure’ until display time. Both RAW and HDR typically mean using more than 8 bits/channel and capturing high quality images that will withstand more post-processing than ‘exposed’ LDR images can handle.