A1 M2 and Lightroom - poor colours, underexposed, high contrast

[V Sellars]

I saw a thread here from last year, but can't find it.

The image I see in the view finder has good colour, exposure, and contrast. The RAW photos also look good. When I import them to Lightroom, they are flat, significantly underexposed, and dark shadows. So much so, that I can't always get that back in processing.

I have already made sure to turn off auto HDR and DRO.

Does anyone have experience with this, and any tips or tricks? I saw that some people changed their version of Lightroom to 14.1, but that was some time ago.

 

[Richard A]

When you say that the RAW photos look good - what are you viewing them with? If on the camera then you are viewing a JPEG, not a RAW. How have you got Lightroom set up? Maybe if you could share one of your RAW files with us we could have a look at it.

 

[V Sellars]

When you say that the RAW photos look good - what are you viewing them with? If on the camera then you are viewing a JPEG, not a RAW. How have you got Lightroom set up? Maybe if you could share one of your RAW files with us we could have a look at it.

Hi Richard. Thanks so much for your response. Since I posted this, I joined Mark Galer's group, and he gave me a course of action to align LR with my camera using custom profile. I'm working on that now. I didn't realize how important that was, or how to do it, but he's got instructions in his ebooks.