Originally posted by k100d trademark pentax underexposure on the second photo
On the contrary; I loaded it up and looked the hitogram, and it's pretty much ISO perfect - the average / peak of the histogram just a bit left of center, no clipped highlights but within half a stop of starting to do so. That is, any camera that produced a brighter exposure than this would be violating ISO standards and clipping highlights - in other words, it would be a Canikon :-).
This *is*, however, a good illustration of how easy it is to mistake "correct" exposure for "exposure that the viewer happens to find most pleasing". I think most viewers would agree they'd like the picture brighter; that's not the debate. But wanting it brighter doesn't mean the camera underexposed; it means it is a scene where the photographer should have applied positive exposure compensation.