Hi there! Finally someone has taken the time to make some nice film simulations for our Sony cameras! 😀
Easy to understand how to put them to use, but i have a suggestion for making it even easier!
(Most)Regular film is balanced in daylight WB(unless tungsten labeled). If daylight setting would be the standard setting on the profiles, one wouldn't have to make those extra custom WB profiles(to emulate filters for scenes) and perhaps appeal to an even broader userbase? 🙂 Best regards/J
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Hei there Jelmoller, glad you like the recipes and thank you for your suggestion!
Yes, it would be easier for each film simulation to only use a constant 5500 Kelvin, or maybe even Auto White Balance with some color filter settings on top, how somebody else suggested, but unfortunately it won't render the exact results as it was designed to give.
You can also check this Forum post for another detailed answer
You are right when saying most films are daylight balanced, but even so, they don't render the same colors, some are colder & some a warmer, some have a green tint other a magenta ting over the whole image. Each has their own color science.
That's why to get as close as possible to authentic film color, we need custom color setting to push and influence colors and get the image we want.
so basically, the settings I've posted are not randomly chosen, each recipe is closely developed and tested in combination with these settings so they complement the recipe and help it to get to the image we want.
When developing these film recipes I applied color grading theory and techniques to really be able to get the colors we remember when shooting film.
If you don't really care about color authenticity, and maybe you just want great color out of camera, you can still use 80-90% of these recipes just with auto white balance or a fixed temperature value like 5500 kelvin and they will give you better colors than your classic sony picture profile colors, but you won't get the same results as I do, or the colors the picture profile was designed to give you.
Some profile will not look good without the temperature and the color filter adjustments, and I don't recommend using them without color adjustments. Some of those picture profiles are the ones which have the Color Phase at -4 or bellow. Some of them are Bluevelvet/Cinestill 50D, Kodachrome 64, Classic Negative Film SImulation and so on.
Basically any Sony picture profile that has the Color Phase set to Negative -1 or less will start to shift colors in the different direction. So without the kelvin and color filter adjustments, you yellows might look too green and blues too magenta, which affects skin tones, skies, pretty much everything and you will wonder why that particular film simulation sucks, because the color adjustments are meant to correct and push the colors in the direction we want.
That's why I keep updating these recipes, because I use them for my own projects and as i use them on my own, I discover ways of improving them. So each temperature Setting is carefully chosen and tested, not random.
Well, I hope this answered your question, if not let me know :D