I admit that until recently my monitors were too bright, but they are now calibrated & indeed the brightness is now turn to zero.

This still doesn't explain why the images printed from picasa resemble what I'm seeing on the screen & the Lightroom prints look fine on the screen but dark when they come out of the printer

Hi All

First off I'm sure this topic has been covered elsewhere, but I've spent hours researching this problem but can't get the specific answer to my problem.

Before I became 'an enthusiastic amateur' photographer I used Picasa to manage & print my photos without issue.

Now I'm using Lightroom 3.4 & all of mt prints are coming out terribly dark.

Now before you all chorus 'profiling' & 'ICC this' & 'paper types that' let me tell you what's puzzling me.

Why is it that changing the printer profile setting in the 'print' screen of Lightroom doesn't change the outcome at all? I must have tried 20-30 different profiles & the print images all come out the same - dark.

The reason I'm having to '2nd guess' my icc profile is that I own an Epson sx415 print which isn't a 'photo' printer (can't yet afford adecent photo printer otherwise I'd get one & wouldn't be having this problem) I've tried the Epson profiles & most of the other ones too.

But what gets me is why does my printer print out correctly 'exposed' prints with picasa & not Lightroom? Further in the 'print preview' window the image looks great in all profile settings, but when I come to print it comes out dark?

Has anyone else suffered this frustration?

Any help gratefully received

Robert

Hi

New to the forum - just upgraded from a Samsung Gx-10 to Pentax K-5

Can anyone confirm if the Ebay grip mentioned above will fit the K-5?

Regards

Robert