dranakin wrote:
I feel like I spend more time looking and inputting different recipes than actually trying them out…
This is exactly how I feel! I spend like 10 minutes inputting a bunch of settings, getting it just right, then take two photos and go back to classic chrome! But I still love the flexibility to try these things and hopefully find that perfect recipe someday
I find the film sims and recipes are largely gimmicks in the end, YMMV. The issues with film sims and recipes that I find are:
* They only work in limited situations. A lot of them rely on certain WB settings. They look ugly once the lighting condition changes. While traveling, I mix people shots with street and landscape shots, and you need to tailor the film sims and recipes to the subject, but I want a fluid shooting experience and focus on my framing and don't want to tweak film sims and recipes constantly.
* Each scene is different and may require different parameters, but a recipe only has a fixed set of parameters, which is rarely optimal for the current scene. I shoot jpeg+raw. If the Fuji jpeg is not good enough, I work to adjust the raw file. The recipes rarely match what you can get from adjusting individual raw files, as each scene is different.
* They degrade image quality. Funny people buy 40MP cameras and spend so much time on the internet debating and testing for the best glass to get the sharpest image, and degrade the result with artificial grains, noise and low DR from high ISO, and dramatic stretching of shadows and highlights.
*They slow down the camera, in particular when applying the clarity setting.
In the end, I don't find it's worth it to do film sims and recipes while shooting. I shoot mostly in PROVIA (or one of the more neutral film sims) and that is the Fuji color that the X cameras' jpeg images are known for. I know my files will have the same consistent color, not affected by fad, when I examine them fifty years down the road. If the Fuji jpeg is not good enough, I work to adjust the raw file.