30d shoots dark

I shoot raw and small Jpegs on my 30D just so i can show people the results on the computer right away.

When i open my raw files they always need a full +1 adjustements in exposition for pictures to be viewable. These come even if meter says to being perfectly exposed! Is there some function i can adjust? Is this a 30D fault?

I use CS2 for raw processing.

Thank you for your help!

Shoot in manual and adjust your settings accordingly as you are shooting rather than afterward. You can chimp the histogram to see what needs adjustment.

I already shoot in manual and meter says that picture is properly exposed!
Once i open the file i see that it is way off!

Can you post some examples? Which metering mode are you using? Evaluative will likely give you anything from a similar reading to a drastically different meter reading than spot so it's pretty important.

I think i did not have the right raw plug in....will try that just got 3.4 plug in!

yes using wrong mode too, using evaluative while tryin to shot a 350D rebel in a white studio box....

sebmour wrote in post #2330910
I shoot raw and small Jpegs on my 30D just so i can show people the results on the computer right away.

When i open my raw files they always need a full +1 adjustements in exposition for pictures to be viewable. These come even if meter says to being perfectly exposed! Is there some function i can adjust? Is this a 30D fault?

Is this consistant accross differnt monitors?
Or have you only tried it on one monitor?

Usualy when people have this problem its because thier monitor is to old and dark.

sebmour wrote in post #2330967
yes using wrong mode too, using evaluative while tryin to shot a 350D rebel in a white studio box....

Well that could go a long way to explaining it... camera exposing for all the white and thus underexposing the subject. Try it again with partial metering or just do it manually and chimp the histogram like Liza said.

Monitor is adjusted, no it is really in the raw converter it automatically brings exposure close to +1...But I think it was my mistake shooting with wrong metering mode! I'll try some more and see.

Yes just wrong metering mode, thank you all... my stupidity kick my in the ass!....LOL

Turn off auto adjustments.

This is how you do it, uncheck all the boxes then save as RAW default.

Use spot metering

yes i used center weigthed metering and shot came out good