In an attempt to find a set of D4 picture settings that made the in-camera histogram look like the true raw histogram, I set the contrast to minimum, the brightness to minimum, and the saturation down one click from standard. It helped, but it wasn’t enough.
The test image:
The in-camera histogram, used to find the hopefully-ETTR exposure:
The Lightroom histogram:
The real raw histogram, showing that the selected exposure is two thirds of a stop under the right exposure:
All those changes just made about a third of a stop difference.
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