Any idea what's going on here?

[StevieBee]

Sony A7iv.

Not had this long so this may well be something that's blindingly obvious, but I'm getting overly dark images.

In camera, the shots appear perfectly exposed, few zebras (have them set to 80%). Yet when I bring them into LR, they're appearing dark. I can pull them back but don't understand why there's such a difference between what I'm seeing in the camera and what's appearing on screen.

Shot using Aperture Priority, 200 ISO, RAW. No exposure compensation. First one used centre point metering and the second full screen average. Getting similar with other metering modes.

Any ideas gratefully received.

[Teppic]

Not helpful in the slightest, but I recognise the first picture as the path between the Harlow Playhouse and St. Paul's church.

[Simpo Two]

StevieBee said:

In camera, the shots appear perfectly exposed, few zebras (have them set to 80%). Yet when I bring them into LR, they're appearing dark.

Try something else - perhaps LR is the problem (though I have no idea what as I don't use it).

Have you changed/updated anything since it last worked properly?

[StevieBee]

Teppic said:

Not helpful in the slightest, but I recognise the first picture as the path between the Harlow Playhouse and St. Paul's church.

It is indeed! Was capturing parts of the town due for, in need of or having undergone regeneration.

[anonymous-user]

Weird. You could try shooting in Jpg to see if that makes a difference. It’ll also allow you to view the pictures outside LR before importing them. Other thing to try is shooting in automatic mode.

[StevieBee]

Simpo Two said:

StevieBee said:

In camera, the shots appear perfectly exposed, few zebras (have them set to 80%). Yet when I bring them into LR, they're appearing dark.

Try something else - perhaps LR is the problem (though I have no idea what as I don't use it).

Have you changed/updated anything since it last worked properly?

Just had a look at the RAW images on the card and it's the same. Putting the card back in the camera and viewing there, they look fine! Top notch card.

Odd. Not happening to all of them.

[Teppic]

StevieBee said:

Teppic said:

Not helpful in the slightest, but I recognise the first picture as the path between the Harlow Playhouse and St. Paul's church.

It is indeed! Was capturing parts of the town due for, in need of or having undergone regeneration.

Parts of the town in need of regeneration? That's easy! All of it!

[Simpo Two]

StevieBee said:

Simpo Two said:

StevieBee said:

In camera, the shots appear perfectly exposed, few zebras (have them set to 80%). Yet when I bring them into LR, they're appearing dark.

Try something else - perhaps LR is the problem (though I have no idea what as I don't use it).

Have you changed/updated anything since it last worked properly?

Just had a look at the RAW images on the card and it's the same. Putting the card back in the camera and viewing there, they look fine!

What are you using to view the RAW images? The image you see on the camera monitor is (but stand to be corrected) actually a JPG.

Maybe send over one of each - OK and dark - and I'll see how they look here.

[StevieBee]

Sussed it!

Made what I think is a reasonable assumption that the movie settings are independent of the stills setting. Seems not. So I was taking a RAW photo with an S-Log3 picture profile! Simpo - as you say, what I was looking at in camera was a JPEG render. Switched off the profile and boom, we're back in the room! Straight out of the camera:



Quite what situation would require an S-Log3 RAW image is beyond me!