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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ronnie BoomBoom" data-source="post: 823780" data-attributes="member: 53554">This is dead on - "only the photographer can decide". I've seen this same expianation re the same problem on the Z7II (I shoot this and D850) and the same problem appears in photos shot in manual mode with exposure determined with an incident meter (Sekonic 558) and studio flash. (I.e., Nikon's meter is "out of the picture" entirely.} So while this explanation re middle gray  is absolutely valid, I think it may be that Nikon just decided to preserve highlights at the expense of shadows and let the photographers adjust to their own aesthetic.  I note that there are some very classy looking professional websites of Nikon shooters and when I downloaded their images they presented similar exposure bias.</blockquote>