For some reason, all my RAW images are underexposed by between 1 and 1 1/2 stops (or at least that's what I need to add when opening them)
This is consistant at all "film" speeds, flash modes, flash off, Sony kit lenses, various Minolta lenses inc. 50mm f1.4 and beercan, metering modes inc. spot and exp. programs, and software (Sony's, Adobe RAW 4 and Picasa).
When shooting RAW + JPEG, the JPEGs are much closer to right (though still a bit dark for my taste, but that could be me.)
Is this something endemic to the A100's camera's RAW implementation (since exposures are mechanical I can't understand why they would be affected by lack of image processing in camera, but who knows.)
Haven't used any other DSLRs yet,. but I don't recall the RAW images in my Minolta 7hi and A1 being particularly dark before processing.
Thanks for the help friends.