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Hmmm--in the Canons and Oly, the RAW has a jpg thumb and it looks perfectly normal. Only if I process and bring the RAW in to PS as linear tiff without a profile does the RAW look different--very dark, and some prefer to work from there whereas many prefer to assign a profile to it before conversion. I know that the D100 has 3 color spaces and assume you can assign one of these to the RAW before conversion. As far as I know, the D100's RAW images look 'normal'. Look here for a complete in depth review of the camera.