Hello,
What is your opinion on the Film Simulations Color Filter? As the PP settings does not save Color Filter settings and has to be adjusted manually with each change. On a street photography basis where capturing photos are fast paced, changing the color filter does not seem practically easy on each PP change. Newer Sony cams has Memory Recall for three settings which is good in this case.
If set the Color Filter to Standard 0 and only change the Color Temperature, does it bring out the intended colors for the simulations or similar results?
The film simulations were closely designed in combination with the temperature and the color filter settings. The role of the temperature settings is to balance and shift colors in different directions.
That being said, most of these film simulations can be used with AWB:White Priority only, but it won't look the same as how they were intended.
Many times it won't come even close to how the simulation was intended to look like but it will still give you great color out of the box, better than sony's basic picture profile settings.
There are a couple film simulations which I'd avoid using without the temperature settings, and that are any of them with the color phase bellow -1.
As a short explanation, the kelvin and color filter settings have the role of correcting and shifting hues, so without these settings, the picture profiles with a negative color phase might come out magenta and with green skin tones.
Use AWB in combination with film simulations that have the color phase beteen -1 and +7. From there you can use the awb with color filter to emphasize on different hues. A3-G1, A2-M1 for warmer tonalities, or maybe B2-G1, B3-M1 for colder hues, and so on.
Too bad you don't have the memory recall option on your camera, but still, there is a lot to experiment with.
Good luck and have fun!