Example ~ Sony "Classic Chrome" Picture Profile recipe

As I look down at the camera and lens I have in my hand, it suddenly occurs to me what a marvelous tool this is.  It comes complete with a portable "mini-lab."  Which is to say, in-camera processing engines can be very useful and rather interesting.

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and all we had was film and paper, it took an enormous "eco-system" of materials and labor to get an image from the camera into a viewable form.  Now?  Well.  It's amazing, isn't it?

For example, take the following recipe.  It comes from Reddit and closely matches Fuji's "Classic Chrome" colors.  For an exact match all we need to do is drop the White Balance temperature a few hundred degress and use the White Balance tuner to move the center point into the yellow/red region.  Then it's impossible to tell if an image was made using a Fuji camera or a Sony, but takes more thinking and setup time.

A "mini-lab" in the palm of my hand.

 

Sony "Classic Chrome" (based on a recipe found on Reddit)

Picture Profile ~

Black level: -2

Gamma: Still

Black Gamma: Middle -2

Knee: Auto, Max Point 100%, Sensitivity Mid

Colour Mode: Still

Saturation: -2

Colour Phase: +1

Colour Dept: R+2, G+2, B-2, C+1, M 0, Y 0

Detail: Level -3 (though in truth I prefer the sharpness of the "0" setting)

Additional Camera Settings ~

EV -0.3  <- to keep the colors nice and rich

AWB  <- except when you need an exact Fuji "Classic Chrome" match where you drop the White Balance temperature a few hundred degrees and use the White Balance tuner to move the center point into the yellow/red region

----------------- Additional Information ---------------

Sony Picture Profile Help Guide - essential for understanding this Sony in-camera image processing tool

"Film Emulation" recipes - found on Reddit (I don't care for the site, but it was the only place I found Sony Picture Profile recipes based on Fuji "looks") 

"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 <- which I don't care for, but, it turns out, provided an interesting starting point for something I hand rolled after considering what Sony Picture Profile tools are capable of

 #SonyPictureProfiles #FilmEmulations