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a7s II photos very dark on computer (look fine on camera)

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Please help! I've been shooting with my camera for about 2 years now. Suddenly all the images I take look fine on the camera, but once I load them into lightroom (same workflow as always) they are about 4-6 stops darker than usual (I have to put shadow to 100 just to look normal). 

Common troubleshooting answers below: these are the settings I have always, and am currently still using (I can't figure out anything I'm doing differently that could have caused this to start happening):

* Shooting in RAW
* Shooting on A (aperture priority) 
* Convert to DNG in Lightroom (I know this is debated, I'm not looking to get into it. This has always worked for me)
* No my dial (raise/lower stops in increments) knob is not lowered by accident (though I've done that in the past many times)

Things of note:

* I DID mess with my picture profile settings in video mode, but I did put them back to what they originally were, and this SHOULDN'T effect images shot in RAW... right?
* When I shoot VIDEO, the images on the camera look the same on the computer. Then if I switch over to pictures, it looks find on camera and looks MAJORLY dark once I offload them to the computer (literally have to put my SHADOWS to 100 to get it to look any good)
* This exact thing happened to me about a year ago, and I ended up completely resetting all camera settings and it fixed the issue.... this time I would like to figure out what is happening to fix it properly instead of just reset everything

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Don’t forget there is exposure compensation setting in the menu that has nothing to do with the dial one. Make sure that did not get changed somehow, listed as exposure comp, next to setting for exposure steps 

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