Sony Film Simulations Blog
Straight Out Of Camera

RAW files give you maximum flexibility when editing color later. But if you want a finished, “baked-in” look straight out of the camera, you need an unconventional approach, especially in how you set white balance. The usual flow is to use a gray card to balance the light source or rely on AWB when shooting and achieve “perfect” neutrality. That’s usually fine, since normally we adjust colors in the edit phase to give our photos or videos the look we want, or we aim for a neu

Canon is well known and love for its color science, especially when it comes to the natural looking skin tones it renders. Way before...

Own an older Sony camera like the A7III, A6400 or an RX100 series camera? You've probably noticed that S-Cinetone —Sony's acclaimed...

Sony RX100 VI accessories The Sony RX100 VI isn’t perfect, but I absolutely love this camera. It’s compact, powerful, and...

Ready to make your Sony camera work for you? Getting the right Sony camera settings—especially with film simulations —can transform how...

Portrait - Sony a7IV vs Sony a6700 Last year, Sony sent me multiple cameras and I compared them with a couple film simulations . My goal was to show how each camera handles colors and how to color match older Sony cameras with newer models. A lot of people kept asking about the Sony alpha 7 IV and whether I could do a side-by-side with it. Luckily, my friend Petru has one. Not only did he let me borrow it for the test, but he also showed up with the Petzval 55 f/1.7 MKII A

Sony has sent me multiple cameras to test out with the film simulations recipes. I think this is a great opportunity to see how different they are in color science and how do these differences translate when using Sony film simulation recipes. Since each Sony camera has a different color science, I want to showcase: the differences between each model at different temperatures how different sensors react to underexposure and overexposure the differences when using film simulat

Some of you might wonder why I don’t use Sony’s Creative Look settings to create film simulations. The answer is simple - when I first...

Did you ever load a film simulation, excitingly start shooting, only to discover it looks totally different from the reference image? The re

If you’ve been shooting with film, you know there’s one characteristic of film that digital can’t capture natively - the halation effect. This effect is reserved for film stocks without an anti-halation layer. So, even if you've nailed the color aspect of film on digital (through film presets, color grading, LUTs or PowerGrades ), you might also want to add a bit of halation to complete the look. And today - we'll go over some methods that I use to emulate the halation effect

Color Matching Sony cameras: RX100 VI vs a7 III vs a6700 Getting accurate, consistent colors across multiple Sony cameras can be super challenging due to subtle differences in their sensor technology and color science. But these color differences throughout camera models result in inconsistent results in color when using the custom Sony Picture Profiles . And we want to get the same kind of colors even if we switch from our little Sony RX100 to our newer Sony a6700 or Sony a7

I know many of you are eager to find out how to customize the Sony Picture Profiles to create film simulations. Well, today we’ll dive...