Camera import settings (Nikon D300)?

How can my Nikon D300 photos all be imported with adjustments to black, brightness, and contrast? Is this an automatic setting (or something I have done mistakenly)?
I have used LR for many years, 25,000+ pictures, and many cameras. When I started importing pictures from a new Camera (a Nikon D300), I see that the following changes are made to every picture:
Black +5
Brightness +50
Contrast +25
I don't know how this happened. I appear not to have edited the photos (the actual Import photo in the history has this setting). My other cameras do not have this setting. Someone please help!
PS I don't ever recall using the synch setting for anything but I am suspicious that only this might have done that.

Please forgive my lack of knowledge of what's overexposed... Unlike Huey, I'm no pro! I do have a sense that the iMac monitors are quite bright and not perhaps terribly accurate until calibrated. (Maybe that's every monitor, IDK.)
Well the Huey is decidedly non-pro, but it still works quite well if you're not super sensitive. If you pay more, you'll get better precision, but I doubt most people will notice, especially if you don't also profile your printer or send out for prints from labs.
Please forgive my lack of knowledge of what's overexposed... Unlike Huey, I'm no pro! I do have a sense that the iMac monitors are quite bright and not perhaps terribly accurate until calibrated. (Maybe that's every monitor, IDK.)
Take an image of a white wall using default exposure on your camera. It should come out looking like an 18% grey card after conversion in Lightroom. Anyway, iMac monitors are notorious for being far too bright. They are almost impossible to get to reference luminance. A trick to try if you do not have a calibrator that does display brightness is described here by Eric Chan. You use your camera's light meter for it. You'll see that for the iMac display you're all the way on the bottom of the brightness scale. You do not want to use any LCD monitor at high brightness because they tend to lose detail in the highlights. A good test of that is available here. You should see the differences in most of the patch pairs in the rightmost column. If you don't, your monitor is set too bright.

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Format                           : MPEG-PS
File size                        : 605 MiB
Duration                         : 4mn 25s
Overall bit rate                 : 19.1 Mbps
Video
ID                               : 224 (0xE0)
Format                           : MPEG Video
Format version                   : Version 2
Format profile                   : Main@High 1440
Format settings, BVOP            : Yes
Format settings, Matrix          : Default
Format settings, GOP             : M=3, N=12
Duration                         : 4mn 25s
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 18.5 Mbps
Width                            : 1 280 pixels
Height                           : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 24.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.836
Stream size                      : 581 MiB (96%)
Audio
ID                               : 192 (0xC0)
Format                           : MPEG Audio
Format version                   : Version 1
Format profile                   : Layer 2
Duration                         : 4mn 25s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 384 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
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NemesysSoft wrote:
Hmm... well, why would I want to buy a separate card reader, pull the card from my D300, put it in the reader, get it read, put it out of the reader and put it back in the D300?
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