Bitmap contrast issue

When I use the imread function to open a grayscale .bmp image, the contrast displayed is far darker than the original image, which causes problems for image processing. Converting the image to .jpeg eliminates the contrast issue, but I have several thousand images to read and I don't want to have to convert them all. Is there a way to get MATLAB to read .bmp files correctly?

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Are you sure it's not reading them correctly but you're just viewing a small range?
try:
imshow(imread('example.bmp'),[]); %whole range
Edition:
What class is the bitmap file?
I = imread('example.bmp');
class(I)
and then what class is the corresponding JPG file?
I = imread('sameexample.jpg');
class(I)

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That helps, although it's not quite the same as the contrast on the original image. It should be workable, though-- thank you!
Bitmap: uint8
JPEG: uint8

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BMP files can have color palettes stored, and indeed must use such palettes when they are less than 8 bits deep. A color palette corresponds to MATLAB's colormap.
[YourImage, YourColormap] = imread('example.bmp');
image(YourImage);
if ~isempty(YourColorMap); colormap(YourColorMap); end

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