I will check dave but I do not think that is it. I did some more investigating and what is happening is every time I go to the file tab the color gain under color balance is magically toggling between 1 and .5.

I have no clue what is causing it and I know it cannot be the default behavior and I have of course wiped the maya folder to reset to all default settings.

I made another video to show the color gain going back and forth from 1 to .5 every time I toggle the place2d and file tabs.