• Members 29 posts
    June 17, 2023, 11:02 p.m.

    I found this video a while ago, and I've gone through it a couple times. Andrew Goodcamera is the channel (used to be called Andrew and Denae). Thought I would post for entertainment and/or review. It was a bit of fun. I posted over at dpreview as well, but thought I'd add it here. =)

    I did it once with pausing to really look at the images and I did once where I did not pause it and just let the video run. Both times I chose 4 or 5 favorites for Astia or Pacific Blues, even if I would still tweak them a bit to my own liking.

    Couldn't do it as a blind test more than twice though, since I start to memorize the assignment of letters to recipes, if say Z were equal to velvia (it's not). I even ran through the video a few weeks apart just to try and not remember the recipes and how how they were assigned.

    youtu.be/xIU03WzvXAI

    The description from the youtube page:

    Today we’re going to be doing a blind test with some of the most popular Fuji profiles and recipes in an effort to help me and to help you discover which of these profiles and recipes appeal to us most. To that end I’ve created another blind test where we use the same series of photos for each of the top profiles and recipes out there so that you don’t have to.

    -Matt

  • Members 123 posts
    June 18, 2023, 6:58 p.m.

    Wow, bad music! Fortunately I have a mute button.

    Many of the images are not ultra-inspiring, but I liked A = Astia, N = Velvia, and (surprisingly) H = Ektar 100 multiple times; Classic negative, Pro negative Hi, and Provia fewer times.

    DxO PhotoLab has film emulations for Astia, Provia, Velvia, Ektachrome, and Kodachrome. For me, Ektachrome is the least useful. I doubt the big 3 are identical to Fuji film emulations. Actually I've had many Fuji cameras over the years, and emulations were slightly different on each one. Moreover the slide film Astia has lower contrast than any Astia emulation I've seen.