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:
When we talk about film emulations, one can not pass the passionate nostalgic idea if one could emulate Kodachrome 64 slide film. Fujifilm camera users think they got it with the Classic Chrome film simulation. And some think that film simulation needed some tweaks to look more like Kodachrome. There are also a lot of Kodachrome 64 emulation attempts around the net. I always was curious about what I could do with Capture One to have access to the look of the Kodachrome 64 and have made and published dozens of attempts with the look. Only recently I found a decent reference color chart captured with Kodachrome 64 and immediately started making a style based on that. With some iterations and many many tweaks to my Capture One color wheel layout I think I succeeded quite well emulating the reference color chart with my style. There are some compromises in luminosity of some color ranges and I acknowledge that the reference wasn't as high contrast as one might expect a Kodachrome 64 film look, but otherwise I am quite happy with this emulation. Throughout the process I have had to change my mind what I expected Kodachrome 64 to look. It isn't a warm style, but then again not overly cool either. It has quite low saturation and the look is not "selling" in any way. I would say there is no other film that could be compared to the look this style has, this is really a unique look. Were it for just out of curiousity or nostalgy, here we go!
The link to the style is here:
Kodachrome 64
