Nikon D700 Opens .6 to 1 stop over exposed in ACR 5.2

My D700 histogram shows the pix to be properly exposed but when I open them in ACR all images are .6 to 1 stop over exposed. While I can reduce exposure in ACR I have not had this problem in CS3 with my D100 & D200 cameras. What's the fix?

>The histogram you see on your camera is NOT based on your raw image directly, but on the JPEG preview created by the camera's built in software and to which adjustments are automatically applied.
What Ramón says is quite true, but you can compare the raw histogram to the camera histogram, With the Nikon D3 set to Adobe RGB and the standard Picture Control, I have found that the camera histogram and blinking highlights are slightly conservative but are generally reliable indicators of the raw histogram. Since the D3 and D700 have essentially the same image processing, I would think that this would also be true for the D700. (since inline images are not allowed in these forums, the message is hard to read since you have to click on the link to see the image. Ramón has figured out a way to have thumbnails with Pixentral, but I have not found a way to do this with my site, Smugmug)
Bill Janes, "ETTR and ACR" #3, 12 Nov 2008 6:37 am
One must be aware that the black and white camera histograms are luminance histograms which are strongly weighted towards the green luminance, whereas the ACR histogram is an RGB histogram and is similar to the color histograms of the camera superimposed on one another.
Both of these histograms reflect white balance. The red and blue channels may appear blown on the camera histogram or ACR histogram when in fact these channels are far from clipping in the raw file. Some users load a UniWB into the camera to get a better approximation of the raw channels.
Since the widest space in the camera is aRGB, the camera histogram may show saturation clipping with intact raw channels. It would be nice if Nikon would also provide ProPhotoRGB as a color space.

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