NEF too dark?

[obelisk]

when I shoot indoors on my D80, the camera shows a fine pic. When I move the NEF to Xnview, it shows up much darker. Is there an issue with how XnV shows raws?
I see the same thing with Pentax raws, but not such a big drop.

[xnview]

Do you have tried to change settings for RAW?

[obelisk]

what kind of settings are there?

[xnview]

Option/Read-write/Read/RAW

[obelisk]

I guess you mean camera RAW not RAW

What does auto brightness do?
I don't know how to set the gamma etc bottom 4 boxes

I tried crazy stuff like brightness 0.1 and it makes no diff to the view..

[xnview]

Try 'auto balance' or 'camera balance' or 'auto brightness'

[obelisk]

The Option/Read-write/Read/camera RAW
settings seem to have no effect on NEF and PEF files I have...

[xnview]

The Option/Read-write/Read/camera RAW
settings seem to have no effect on NEF and PEF files I have...

Could you send me a sample?

[obelisk]

Here is a dark nef file
http://www.filedropper.com/dsc2356

[xnview]

Option/View/Misc is on half or full size?

[obelisk]

is 'embedded thumbnail'

what does that setting mean?



tried other settings, seems no change.

[xnview]

is 'embedded thumbnail'
what does that setting mean?

It's the jpeg that you see, try 'half size', and change RAW settings

[obelisk]

thanks. This confuses me. I was seeing the jpeg, but the jpeg is also 100% size? I thought jpeg was only thumbnail size.

I have some Q about settings for RAW
Gamma is 2.2
what's the 'standard' setting for brightness?
what is 'high resolution'