Alright, now I’m thinking the issues are somehow happening when I’m downloading and saving the files. Because on my camera screen, the two shots look exposed exactly the same (see pics). I’ve just been going through my raw shots with windows photo viewer, and cropping+saving the good shots as jpgs, which worked totally fine for that one sandpiper shot, but most of the other sandpiper shots, when I view them in windows photo viewer, are totally blown out. I haven’t used this camera very long, but I haven’t noticed this issue elsewhere, it just popped up shooting this group of shorebirds. Super noticeable on this killdeer too, looks stunning on the camera screen, but mangled on the computer! Here are pics of that too.
Photo which turned out well on computer
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Photo which turned out way overexposed on computer
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Killdeer on camera
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Same Killdeer photo when cropped and saved as a jpeg in windows
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