+1 for Photomatix
I've had some passable success with making 3 exposures from a single raw file - especially handy when there are fast moving objects or when you are shooting handheld.
Here's one I shot last week - handheld, single raw file -
RAW is better because you have that much more data to work with. If you think about it you can generally recover ±1 stop from a single raw file even without bracketing exposures.
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I've had some passable success with making 3 exposures from a single raw file - especially handy when there are fast moving objects or when you are shooting handheld.
Here's one I shot last week - handheld, single raw file -