My exports from Capture One are too bright or too dark!

Paul Ferradas

• February 25, 2018 16:03

I'm having and issue while I shoot tethered with a Canon 5D Mark III. The image looks great in Capture 1 but when I export the file to JPG, the image looks too dark. And when I export the image to DNG, it's too bright. I'm not sure why this is happening. The colors look fine, it's just the exposure changes after export. Is there a setting I'm not following?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1j72aupd1xqujr1/dngbright.jpg?dl=0

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • February 25, 2018 18:05

  

  Isn't this what you would expect for the DNG? Isn't a DNG essentially the raw file saved in a different file format, so you'd expect to get what you started with rather than your nicely adjusted shot as shown in your screenshot. (That's certainly what happens for me.)
  
  I don't know about the JPG. What colour space is used in the export recipe?
  
  Ian
  
  Edited to add: why do you want to export a DNG anyway?

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  Robert Whetton

  • February 26, 2018 14:13

  Exporting to DNG won't preserve any of the corrections made to the RAW file within C1, it will just take the original file and convert it to the DNG format.

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