I figured something like that was the cause.  I know on TVs the factory settings are made up more for that ooh pretty in mind... because that's what people want.  However if you try to actually set your TV to the right color settings (or the ones that extend its life) you'll get a different look.  If those cameras are made with more professional level people in mind, then what you say does make a lot of sense, regardless of the reason it was really done for.

Plus in photography, you have to worry about lighting and all that to get a really nice shot at the time of the shoot, so maybe the photographer doesn't want to worry about changing things to looking pretty until later...  It's probably easier to add contrast later than to take an image with too much contrast and fix it in case you need the real image.

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

(using Poser Pro 2014 SR3, on 64 bit Win 7, poser units are inches.)