RAW files to PNG/RAW going dark?

FML1990

FML1990

FML1990

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Currently using Stepok Raw Importer to batch convert my photos to these file formats. Unfortunately when I do this all of my photos seem to go a lot darker.

I'm presuming someone here has an easy way to do this? Preferably batch, I really don't want to do hundreds of photos one at a time. And preferably not using software I have to pay for.

Any advise guys?

EDIT: Title was supposed to say PNG/JPEG
 
Any benefit to shooting in a different file format?
I don't know much about photography.

Also any solution to my conversion issue?
 
Just shoot in JPEG in the future.

As for your current problem, is there any settings you can alter? I dont know anything about that software.
 
FML1990 said:
Any benefit to shooting in a different file format?
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Main benefit is that you won't have to convert them!

If you're not doing any editing before converting to jpeg, then just shoot in jpeg. For one, your camera is going to do a much better job at writing to jpeg than any software - your camera will apply the correct distortion profiles and optimised CA removal.

Also, don't convert/save photographic images as PNG - that's not what it's designed for. PNG is designed for images that have high contrast and large blocks of the same colour - such as text, webcomics, logos.

Personally I think it's definitely worth investing time in learning how to process RAW files (via software like Lightroom), but if you're not going to do that then just set your camera to write out to jpeg in the first place.
 
It's probably down to the the colour space it's using or what you have chosen to output to.

I don't know the program or what you are doing with the files but if its jpeg for the web etc look for sRGB.
 
Can your camera shoot in RAW+JPEG mode? This way you get the best of both worlds. You get a RAW file as your 'digital negative' to store and refer back to if you want to post process any particular image. And you get a JPEG file already converted in-camera with whatever settings you choose. Obviously this increases the storage requirements, but it does save a lot of time batch converting.
 
Not sure if it can save both formats of image at the same time. But I will be changing to jpeg for the future as I don't do any editing.

Just really need help as to how I should change the format without the picure actually changing. It goes considerably darker and looks terrible.
 
Its bound to happen if you do a default RAW to jpeg conversion without setting up any kind of color profiles, contrast curves etc. RAW files are purposely going to be incredibly washed out and ull grey. You are going to have to export with some default color profiles.
 
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