D700 RAW Images Overexposed by ACR

Is anyone else having problems with d700 RAW images being significantly overexposed during the conversion process in Lightroom? The preview of the images are spot-on, beautiful and perfectly exposed (I know this is the JPEG data) and then it's as if some gremlin wreaks havoc - the histogram disappears and when it comes back, voilà! A harsh, overexposed image is what is left. I typically have to manually "underexpose" each image in the develop module between 2/3 and 1.5 stops - sometimes 2 - to get the exposure into the same neighborhood as the preview and then have to perform a boatload of other adjustments to correct for the flat, cold tones. It's adding so much time to my workflow, I'm afraid I may have to switch over to Capture NX2 - it seems to nail the RAW conversion perfectly - which would be a huge pain in the rear. Any help or direction would be appreciated - this is really a frustrating issue. There is a fair amount of discussion about this in the Aperture forums (Aperture's RAW conversion engine also seems to be blowing out D700 images) but I can't find anything on-point here about LightRoom.
Am using a Macbook Pro with OSX 10.5
Thanks // Bill

There are three causes for this and No it should not happen. Go to one of your images and hit "reset". The image should return to being correctly exposed and fairly close (but not exactly the same) to the in-camera jpeg.
1. As Dennis says, it is possible you are applying auto adjustments. Uncheck the preferences for that. While you are in that screen make sure you also reset all camera defaults.
2. You are applying a preset on import. Make sure there is nothing like that in the import pane. Also make sure to hit reset on any images that were impacted.
3. Camera RAW (the processor under the hood in Lightroom) is not the same RAW processor as your camera and Capture NX. They will render RAW differently. Read this
FAQ entry for an explanation. You can make Lightroom render the same colors as your camera by using the
Adobe Camera matching profiles. They really work as
I showed here a long time ago.
There is no good reason to go to Capture NX except when you need a lot of the U-points stuff. You can get Lightroom to render identical to jpegs out-of-the-camera and it is far faster and more convenient than the horrifyingly ugly(in my opinion) NX.

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