Background:
I have spent enormous time in front of my computer tuning some styles for Capture One, partly out of curiosity and partly, well, as a part of my hobby. I have shared them freely through couple of my websites in an effort to spark the community to share DIY styles for Capture One. I thought, why not share them here, maybe a forum is better place for sharing and discussing DIY-styles.
I don't claim them to be perfect, but I have tried to make my styles balanced and as useful as possible. Some of them are based on a real film look and I have tried to emulate them according to my (hopefully) increasing abilities with Capture One, but they always are a bit of a compromise. My aim is not matching the film perfectly but get the aesthetics/look as close as possible. I only use the color wheel to adjust the styles (even in black and white styles that try to emulate the luminosity of different colors) so I am not touching different color curves. For tone curves I usually use linear curve.
The styles are downloadable as zip-files from my Google Drive as I do not know other places to store the files.
I hope someone finds these shared styles useful, but I also hope to get ideas to improve them or generate new ones in the future. And I want to encourage others to make and share their own DIY-styles or perhaps fine-tune the ones I share here. And if you find some of these useful, why not show us some photos processed with them.
As an additional note, these are meant to be used for raw-files, not on top of a jpeg-file.
About the shared style:
The film emulated here is one of the most known professional films and especially portrait photographers have praised it. It actually is now discontinued and found still in small quantities. You can certainly find good emulations of this film especially for Lightroom, but also there are some available for Capture One too. I would recommend TAP (The Archetype Process), but probably the Mastin Labs emulations are good too. This is only one emulation of one certain look (closest to Noritsu scan, hopefully :-)) when the big ones mentioned before have many different kind of looks (like pushed, overexposed etc.) available. I made this out of curiosity and as a technical challenge and I think this one is quite good looking and balanced emulation. I would call Fuji 400h as "sweet" as opposed to Kodak Portra series which is more like "warm" looking films. Fuji 400h also falsifies some colors and I guess so does this style too. So, almost everything looks good with this unless you prefer different kind of look. I am not sure if some of the pink skin pigments, that we have here in Finland for example, look especially flattering. Maybe it is the film I emulated or some color setting I failed to emulate well, but I would say that with this restriction all other skin types seem to look good.
Edit 19.4.2023: I corrected some colors which seem to have been left unchecked by me. I made corrections to dark blues and certain range of reds in the update.
The link to the style is here (edited 19.4.2023):
Fujfilm 400h
Fujifilm 400h VZA_5373 1 by Veijo, on Flickr
Fujifilm 400h VMF76072 1 by Veijo, on Flickr
Fujifilm 400h VMF64378 1 by Veijo, on Flickr