Why do my RAW images appear darker in Aperture 3 when imported?

I have the same problem! I updated Aperture and now a lot of the photographs turned green. I use a canon 5d. I have prepare a presentation and now the final edits look terrible!

Hey SuperSmith,

Have you read this compelte discussion? It talks about the problem and potential solutions.

Additionally, sent feedback to Apple that your RAW images are coming out to dark for the canon 5D. Maybe it can be adjusted the next time they update the RAW definitions.

I wish A3 would have kept the A2 feature to adjust white balance using the previous version's white balance tool. This would likely solve the problem.

I'm a Nikon user and this is just really irritating. The camera does a great job setting everything the photo's look great on the LCD and then you import into Aperture and everything needs to be lightened by a stop before it looks like it did on the Camera. It's really iritating if you've adjusted the exposure to get a particular effect you judge it by the LCD and then when you import your works effectively lost do, I need to adjust every image even if the histograms look great. I shoot raw because I also do a lot of night shots long exposures and HDR as everyone says if you do get those wrong lightening in the software bring out a whole host of hidden detail. I seriously considering moving all of my photo's to lightroom and using Photo shop, but I have to export the library and import to lightroom to do it. Another reason not to use aperture is the library much better to just have the files in a folder structure where you can access them without exporting them from the software. It's very disapointing.

xmlgenie:

Are you using Active-D lighting? That causes the camera to underexpose by a stop, which is corrected in RAW processing. The underexposed raw data is what ends up in the raw file. Aperture gives you the raw data, which is what you asked for, and ignores the settings info in the raw file. turn off active d-lighting in the camera, and the exposure will be much closer.

Keith Barkley wrote:

xmlgenie:

Are you using Active-D lighting? That causes the camera to underexpose by a stop, which is corrected in RAW processing. The underexposed raw data is what ends up in the raw file. Aperture gives you the raw data, which is what you asked for, and ignores the settings info in the raw file. turn off active d-lighting in the camera, and the exposure will be much closer.

I was going to mention this. If you shoot Raw you need to turn this off, you will get very dark shots once Aperture has loaded them.