Strangely, I have just found the multiple exposure option on my D5100. The reference manual makes it reasonably clear that I can merge several exposures into one image, but there is no reference to increasing/decreasing exposure values with each shot (I may have missed it). Is the multiple exposure option another way of creating HDR-like images?
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There are software options I've read about (none have worked for me yet), which supposedly will do HDR with different exposures of the same RAW image. You could take a RAW image that is correctly exposed, drop it by two stops in View NX2, save that as a new image, then revert and raise it by two stops and save that. You would then have a three-exposure bracket shot with a four stop range. I tried one freeware program that did pretty well on this, but caused terrible moire, and have not gotten around to others. I think you can do this in Lightroom with a plugin.