tradeOfAllJack wrote:
...And same impression about the film simulations above - they show loss of detail in both highlights and shadows, which is an opposite to what the real film actually does. For that reason I much prefer RNI - they somehow recover more detail from the highlights, separate the colours nicely and overall look and feel more like real film to my eye.
Looking at the film simulations that interest me for my Leica M10, particularly for Portra 400 and 800, I don't see RNI recovering more detail in the highlights, nor having the highlight falloff of Portra: the RNI profiles merely squeeze down the dynamic range substantially, particularly at the highlights. That doesn't seem like a "more accurate" film simulation, nor aesthetically more pleasing: actually, I find that I can get where I want to be more easily if I start with the Portra simulations in VSCO 6 Push & Pull or the TAP Kodak package, rather than with RNI. I realize that a good many people like RNI the best, but it's not my experience.
I look forward to seeing how the Cobalt Kodak simulations look. In the meantime, I find myself sitting on the fence with regard to trying the DNG Basic pack first.
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