RAW editor brighter than thumbnail & camera

Using Bridge CS4 and a Nikon DS3. Photos look good on the back of the camera and thumbnails/previews that Bridge generates.
When going into RAW editor, the photos always look about 20% brighter or so. Is there a setting in RAW Editor that can correct this? Which is more accurate?

RAW pictures are just that, raw.  You have to adjust your settings to create to suit your eye and then set them as default.
The whole idea of raw is to give the photographer wide latitude to adjust the picture.  It is like a negative in the old days.
It you don't want all that hassle you can just shoot jpeg and the job is done, although you can tweek latter, even in the camera raw editor.  With jpeg a little infor is thrown away to make it a smaller file size.  Personally I shoot jpeg in most cases, using raw if I know it may be a marginal picture and need help to get it correct.
What you are seen in the thumb and preveiws are embedded jpeg images if you have thumbs set for embedded.

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