Studiolight HDRIs cause fireflies in Cycles

Most of the included studiolight HDRIs cause fireflies in Cycles due to negative values around hilights. Probably because of extreme image compression.

The topleft render shows the fireflies using the city.exr studiolight and the bottom left is using a denoised version to eliminate the artifacts.

This is not a bug which is why I am posting it here but it is not pretty either.

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@JeroenBakker is the developer who manages the studio light HDRis, he’ll know more about this.

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I actually did report it some time ago just so you know :wink:
https://developer.blender.org/T73832

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