Canon raw CR2 files are 1.33 underexposed in LR3. Why?

Hi,
I'm fairly new to lightroom and have mainly used it for some workflow with JPG files.
I'm trying to do some work with CR2 raw files from my 30D and the RAW files appear approx 1.33 stops underexposed in Lightroom 3.6.
I have compared with the camera jpg in LR3.6, the camera jpg and CR2 in canon DPP software / Breeze Browser Pro / Picasa.
I can't understand it. No presets. everything I can see is off.
In Develop > Set default settings ...I see it recognises that it is a canon 30D
Any ideas?

Hi,
I take your point... it has been good working through things.
Unfortunately, I couldn't tell you what the original settings were as I deleted the files and re imported. Maybe I just clicked on something I shouldn't have! as the import was better.
But after investigation I think it may have been auto tone appplied. I found out how to remove it from import and later applied auto tone to some images and where the exposure should have been increased by ~ +.33 LR was in fact reducing Exposure AND reducing the Brightness setting too. So it was double wammy!
There is no real EXPOSURE difference between the picture styles in LR once the exposure is right for one.
I took the shots in RAW+jpg, Portrait picture style with saturation +1 (under studio lights with camera calibrated with an expodisc, and the light is also metered).
This gives me a good starting point from which I wanted to use LR to vignette, add some cool effects to multiple images and create some printing packages. For School Photos.
The LR match to DPP (Portrait > Saturation +1) appears to be roughly: Reset > Exposure + 0.33 > Saturation +10 > Process 2010 > Profile:Camera Portrait.
The image doesn't jump out quite as much but the sharpening is better than DPP.
I am finding you can do a lot more with LR than DPP but it's not always intuitive and the historgram is not as much help as the rgb output histogram on DPP which helps me get my print exposure spot on 99% of the time with ease and clinical precision - in LR its more by eye unless I'm missing something? If you use DPP you'll know what I mean
Thanks ssprengel!
OH... I re read your post camera portrait vs camera standard = no exposure difference BUT ADOBE STANDARD IS LOWER EXPOSURE and camera faithful / camera neutral is lower still.
And I think I noticed my original imports had both auto tone and adobe standard profile so that would make it about 1.33 exposure difference from DPP!!!!!!!!!!!

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