Comparisons of film simulations

Just for a laugh, I thought I'd compare the film simulations from my X100VI with that produced from Capture One and Adobe Photoshop (ACR).

So, I set up a small table with some natural light and placed various coloured articles on it. Then, for each colour simulation in the camera, I took one picture (Raw and JPG) setting the aperture at F8 and letting the camera deal with the rest. I then copied the files to my PC and, for each RAW file, I set it to the same simulation as the JPG and wrote out a new JPG file. I did this in Capture One and Photoshop. Photoshop didn't have all the simulations, so for some, it was just C1 against in-camera JPG.

The results were not quite what I expected. Photoshop had a closer match to the in-camera JPGs than Capture One. There isn't much in it, but it is noticeable.

Anyway, here are the pictures. Have a look yourself and see what you think. I've resized them but if you want to see the full size or raw ones, they can all be found here 1drv.ms/f/s!AiCLdrrfkdGRrX1EnWL2QccJThtd?e=liTzKR - some comparisons are below.

Provia Std ((no 45)
JPG from camera

Capture One

Photoshop

Velvia (no 46)
JPG from camera

Capture One

Photoshop

Astia (No 47)
JPG from camera

Capture One

Photoshop

Classic Chrome (No 48)
JPG from camera

Capture One

Photoshop

Reala Ace (No 49)
JPG from camera

Capture One

Photoshop

I think you get the idea. I haven't uploaded the rest here - you can find them in the Dropbox link above.

50 is Pro-Neg Hi
51 is Pro-Neg Std
52 is Classic Neg
53 is Nostalgic Neg
54 is Eterna
55 is Eternal Bleach Bypass.

I haven't tested that. I'll give it a go tomorrow.

Alan

I don't - I use RAW files in ACR and apply the camera profiles that ACR supplies.

Alan

Dropbox have told me that my activity is too high and have frozen any downloads. So, I'm moving all the files to OneDrive and you can use this link

1drv.ms/f/s!AiCLdrrfkdGRrX1EnWL2QccJThtd?e=liTzKR

to copy the pictures if you want to play yourself. I'll update the first post as well.

Alan

How interesting. It must be my monitor. I will try and calibrate it again and see what I then get.

Alan

I've looked on three monitors and it's the carpet. It looks darker with the C1 simulation.

I also need to see what else I may have forgotten to check, like the Apple profile.

Alan

I am confused. In Photoshop ACR, I opened the raw file and assigned the Provia Camera profile. then opened it in PS itself. Go to Edit -> Profile and it shows the RGB profile as "Display P3". When I change it to SRGB IEC... , the image on the screen seems to be made a but duller.

So, what is "Display P3"?

Alan

Camera profiles (like Provia) and color spaces/profiles (like Display P3) are in now way related. Also you never should assign some color profile to image, unless you know exactly, what you are doing. You can convert them though.

Display P3 (DCI-P3, wikipedia) is just one possible RGB color space (like sRGB, Adobe RGB, Rec709 etc). You don't need to think about it - every color managed program (all nowadays image processing software, including Adobe, C1, DXO, Corel etc; Chromium based browsers; properly configured Firefox) should display and use it properly. Windows itself and its default photo viewers likely are not color managed.
If you have calibrated monitor, then you have to look in your software options, is that profile used. Adobe maybe even does not tell you - I have no way to check :)