There’s no catch – all they ask for is your email address in order to send you the activation code. Sebastião Salgado did exactly that for his Genesis project, according to this article (and the discussion in the comments) at The Online Photographer.Ĭurious? DxO and Sony have got together to offer DxO Filmpack 3** (the Essential Edition) free. Why would you want to do that? Well, if you were a famous photographer who started shooting a major project with black and white film, then was forced to switch to digital for practical reasons, you might want to use a program like DxO FilmPack to achieve a consistent look across the body of work. Perfectly reproduce the quality, style, colors, and grain of the most famous analog films. According to the website, DxO FilmPack lets you DxO have produced a program called DxO FilmPack that helps you turn digital images into analog style photos. If you select one of these settings the camera will presumably deliver JPEGs that somewhat approximate the look you would get if you used one of these film types.įilm simulation seems to be popular.
The instruction manual of the X20 reveals Provia, Astia and Velvia among its Film Simulation (the Fujifilm term for Picture Styles) settings. The other manufacturers have the same feature on their cameras, but use different names:įujifilm take it one step further with their X series cameras. For example, if you have an EOS camera you can choose the portrait Picture Style if you are taking photos of people (less sharpening, optimised for skin tones) or the landscape Picture Style if you are taking photos of a landscape (more sharpening, deeper greens and blues). Camera manufacturers include Picture Styles so you can change the look of your images according to the subject. If you’ve ever used your camera’s Picture Style* settings you are imitating the use of film.
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