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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50 12-30-2015, 06:05 PM

Dark RAW images from K50
Posted By Des

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In-camera jpg settings can lighten the image. Some of the default ones (e.g. Bright) do a little, and the parameters in any of them can be adjusted (e.g to increase/decrease brightness, saturation or contrast). It's possible the brightness parameter has been bumped up on the selected preset.

The other (more likely) explanation is that shadow protection is affecting the exposure levels in the jpgs.
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/151-pentax-k-30-k-50/265011-highlight-sha...ion-usage.html
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/172-pentax-k-3/282312-contrast-highlight-...djustment.html

Highlight protection works on both RAW and jpg images, but shadow protection only works on jpgs.

@shanx, welcome to the forum. You might find the PF recommended settings for the K-50 helpful: https://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/pentax-k-50-review/recommended-settings.html (The whole of this review pays re-reading.)

---------- Post added 12-31-15 at 12:18 PM ----------

I've used it a bit, for example for a bird in shade against a bright sky.

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