Importing RAW files: wrong brightness levels

When I import pictures in iPhoto, they're dark.
I took a bunch of photos in RAW from a Nikon D-5000. They look great on my camera's screen. When I put the card into my iMac, iPhoto shows me all the pictures to import and they look great in thumbnail. When I actually import them, the photos are all dark. The hilights are all much too low. I could use the edit functions in iPhoto, or even Photoshop to fix them, but why should I have to? I took 180 pictures and I don't really want to manually adjust each picture.
I also tried it on another Mac and it did the same thing.
Why is iPhoto changing the images from the original RAW files?

Rob
This isn't an issue with Colour Profile, this isn't an issue with iPhoto. It's an issue with not quite understanding Raw and how it works.
A Raw is a Sensor dump from your camera. Believe it or not, that's what every shot you take looks like on the sensor. For people who don't shoot Raw what happens next is that the camera processes the photos and stores the result of that process as a jpeg. Looks good.
However, Raw shooters don't want that. They want to do that processing themselves.
They look great on my camera's screen.
That's not your Raw. That's a jpeg (and therefore processed by the camera) Preview of the shot.
I could use the edit functions in iPhoto, or even Photoshop to fix them, but why should I have to?
Um, bluntly, because you chose to. See the problem: "I want to shoot Raw so I can use the edit functions in iPhoto to process them but I don't want to actually do that".
If you don't want to process the pics yourself, shoot jpeg.
Regards
TD

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