After understanding that the Sony "Movie" Gamma selection in Picture Profile did the necessary heavy lifting of the mid-tones that make a digital black and white image nearly indistinguishable from a good silver-based chemical print, I took a quick look at how to implement in-camera B&W filters.
This turns out to be a trivial exercise as long as I remembered that Sony Picture Profile Color Depth "+" color shifts make specified colors darker and "-" color shifts make specified colors lighter. Once this is understood, we can make just about any in-camera B&W filter we like.
As with my other examples posted to this blog, the following is straight out of the camera. It's of course a jpg, and it is using the in-camera "mini-lab" image processing tools.
Black and White Print with Raised Mid-Tones Picture Profile recipe ~
Sony "Black and White Orange Filter Print" (hand rolled)
Picture Profile -
Black level: 0
Gamma: Movie
Black Gamma: Middle 0
Knee: Auto, Max Point 100%, Sensitivity High
Color Mode: Black and White
Saturation: 0
Colour Phase: 0
Colour Dept: R -3, G+3, B+7, C 0, M 0, Y -7
Detail: Level 0
Additional Camera Settings -
variable EV <- depending on scene brightness
AWB
---------------- Additional Information ---------------
Sony Picture Profile Help Guide - essential for understanding this Sony in-camera image processing tool
"Film Emulation" recipes - found on Reddit (which I don't care for, but this was the only place I've found these)
"Kodak Portra 400 film emulation" recipe - Gered Hickey provides clear explanations for the choices made in creating this Picture Profile
"Tri-X film emulation" - Andrea Pizzini's AI generated B&W recipe (I prefer my version)
#SonyPictureProfiles #FilmEmulations #BlackandWhiteFilmEmulation
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