Bridge modifies previews

Bridge modifies my images when uploading. Shoot Canon MarkIII, the images are converted to some type of auto levels but I am sure I do NOT have that applied under preferences. How can I stop this?

Molly (and Janet),
What you are seeing is perfectly normal, and
it is NOT what you think.
When Bridge first "
finds" your image to read it, it is
NOT showing you a rendition of your raw image. Rather, it is directly accessing the embedded JPEG created in the camera by the camera's raw conversion software and embedded in (transparently included with) the file you download to the computer.
An instant later, Bridge calls upon the ACR plug-in to do
its own conversion from the raw file and give you its (ACR's) natural rendition of the raw image as interpreted by ACR, not the camera manufacturer's raw conversion software as contained in your camera's firmware and also provided to you by the camera manufacturer in the form of conversion software for your computer.
ACR was
NOT designed to emulate the results obtained by the camera manufacturer's software
at all, but to give you the most natural image possible. Canon and Nikon use tone curves to clip the deep shadows to hide noise and to produce the over-contrasty, over-saturated and over-sharpened images that appeal to most consumers. ACR defaults are nothing more than starting points aimed at showing you the image potential. It's up to thew user to learn how to use ACR and come up with the settings he/she likes.
Because many Nikon and Canon users complained, the ACR team developed in ACR 4.5 a means of accessing
additional ACR profiles for Canon and Nikon cameras (no other makers as of yet; Pentax profiles, for instance, are and have always been spot on) beside the Adobe Standard profile. These profiles are now in beta, and
you HAVE TO download them separately from the ACR plug-in and install them correctly before you can access them
, if you prefer Nikon and Canon's ways.
Please visit the ACR forum to read more details in existing threads.
Additionally, Adobe has announced and released the new, amazing DNG Profile Editor, with which you can create and manipulate custom profiles for DNGs created from your raw files. These custom profiles will then appear in the drop-down menu in the Calibrate tag of ACR and you can apply them to any image in ACR. But that's another story.

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