AllenDpics Loc: Williamsburg Virginia

I have been using AFtershot Pro 3 which came with my camera. I was curious about another program. I downloaded Lightzone and tried it out. Opened up the same Pre-edited RAW file to compare the results.
All I did was convert the file from RAW to Jpeg. No editing at all. Here is the results. I don't know if this is a fare comparison or not, but there is a difference. The top one is from Aftershot which is much closer to the the original. The other is from LIghtZone which is much lighter. I tried other files to see if they would be any closer to the original Raw file in appearance. All of them washed out lighter when I pushed the edit button in LightZone.
Any comments?

PS, I know the image is not very sharp, just used it for this post.

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rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

Actually, the yellow petals in #2 seem darker to me (viewed on iPad Pro purchased last year). The background of #1 seems darker (less washed out) than the background of #2.

AllenDpics Loc: Williamsburg Virginia

Thanks Ralph for your observation. You may be right. But you would think that the same computer, monitor, video card, file, the same dum#%@ operating it, it would render the same way. Thats why I was thinking it was a program difference.