HELP - Unusable Dark original photos after having shot tethered to CP10

Hi all,

I realize its time to update to the latest CP... but I've been successfully using CP10 to tether to my old Canon 5d MK III for so many years, there has been no reason to change the recipe. I usually only use CP10 for the tether work, I make adjustments in Photoshop. (Don't hate).

Anyway, I have several product and people shoots a month and the exported originals are always perfect. (I have done literally hundreds or even thousands of tethered shoots in CP10).

But yesterdays shoot brought a new problem I've never run into. As I shot everything looked great in the capture window of CP10. But the original images (either by exporting originals or by using "Reveal in Finder" and seeing the actual files that were shot in CP ) are so dark that peoples faces are near black. The actual images are not just dark, they are near black in most cases.... yet the preview window in CP looks fine (albeit a little unpleasant in the colors, which I just thought was a byproduct of flash and ambient light that I'd have to fix later).

If I export a variant, it looks just like the preview in CP.

I've looked to see if I accidentally changed a setting in Next Capture... nothing.

Help please... I have no idea what happened, and now I'm in a panic about the 333 portraits I just shot in an office complex.

Matthew Abourezk

9. Februar 2023 16:15

WELL THEN... after digging deeper I figured it out.

Command-L keystroke sets the view to Auto Adjust the view brightness and contrast. Command-K keystroke is to trigger the camera.

I probably hit Command-L by accident when I was trying to fire the camera. And the Capture Next settings kept that exposure adjustment on the View for the entire day. So the entire shoot I saw captures that were adjusted by the app. I was wondering why I had to set my strobes so low to get a good exposure.

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