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iPhone 13 RAW images extremely dark when merged to {Pano

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I'm trying to update my workflow to accommodate iPhone 13 Pro Max raw images, moving them 'automagically' from iPhone to LRClassic. That all seems to work and the initial images look fine.
The first thing I did was a photo merge to pano and the normal looking dng images merged fine, but the resulting pano is about 2.5 stops too dark (see screenshot). I'll keep working but wanted to see if there was any experience (and explanation) of this?

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What you are looking at with the original image is probably the JPEG thumbnail sent by the iPhone along with the RAWfile. The Panorama takes a auto tone corrected RGB image that has been adjust to ALL of the images in the panorama. If the Panorama DNG is too dark, edit it as you would any other image in develop.


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clee01l said:
What you are looking at with the original image is probably the JPEG thumbnail sent by the iPhone along with the RAWfile. The Panorama takes a auto tone corrected RGB image that has been adjust to ALL of the images in the panorama. If the Panorama DNG is too dark, edit it as you would any other image in develop.


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It's more complex than that I think. The component images are NOT dark when opened in Develop mode. They are similar, as one would expect with any image.

Cheers
 
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Johan Elzenga said:
I haven’t seen this, but then again I do not have the same iPhone. Turn off ’Auto Settings’ in the panorama dialog. Does that help?
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I should have mentioned that 'Auto' was off in the original pano.
Setting it to 'on' in a rerun, the preview shows about 1 stop lighter that the previous iteration, BUT the image displayed in LR is as one would expect, both in Library and in Develop.

Cheers
 
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Maybe it is just the way the Apple Pro Raw profile is processed?
If I change the Profile in the resulting Pano to Adobe Color then it looks better.
 
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@Paul McFarlane mentioned someone else had reported this, seemed to be specific to iPhone raw files. Feels like a bug to me.
 
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I've noticed darkness issue here too with pano. Normally I sync develop the images together to how I want them to look, then merge and recently they've come out dark and 'undeveloped.'
Not twigged if it's just an iPhone thing because I had a disastrous merge from a drone shot recently too. My phone is an iPhone 12 Pro Max.
 
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