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 but here I accidentally used Standard 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:
I kinda accidentally stumbled to this film as it seems to be less known black&white film. I loved it immediately as it has somehow more feeling in the look than many other B&W-films. The quite even middle-tones and highlights and "condensed" deep blacks make it interesting, and different. I used Cubic grain at maximum granularity to emulate the real film's grain with the excellent grain emulation tool found in Capture One, but you might want to change the look of the grain as for some purposes the grain might just be too much.
The link to the style is here (some errors in blue "colors" were corrected 6.4.2023):
Rollei RPX400 emulation
Couple of photos with this style:
Rollei RPX400 VMF24510 by Veijo, on Flickr
Rollei RPX400 IMG_1541 by Veijo, on Flickr