Nikon Colour Profile Film Recipes

In this section you will find my Nikon Film Recipes. For Nikon, I have decided not to give “recipes” an actual film name like you see with Fujifilm. In reality, even Fujifilm recipes are a facsimile of actual film, and I have decided to move away from that, and let the title be a descrition of the style of image you will get. There are four examples chosen for each recipe so that you can see how the colour profile will look, plus all the settings. Currently, these are written down, and will need to be entered into your Nikon camera (further along I will be adding files for you to load into your camera).

To apply, you can either enter these settings directly into NX Studio, and apply them to your raw files (which I highly recommend as you can try out the different looks for each image you take), or you can edit and save the colour profiles in your Nikon Camera. There is space for 10 save spaces for Colour Profiles.

The Film-Ish Collection
A collection of Nikon Colour Profiles that give a varity of intersting film-like and other looks. Here is the first set of 12 profiles.

Film #01 Portra Skies

Colour Profile: Landscape
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: 4.00
Mid-Range Sharpening: 3.00
Clarity: 2.75
Contrast: -1.50
Brightness: 0.25
Saturation: -3.00
Hue: -3.00

Film #02 Bluesy

Colour Profile: Denim
Effect Level: 50
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: 3.00
Mid-Range Sharpening: 3.75
Clarity: -2.00
Contrast: -1.75
Saturation: -2.00

Film #03 Filmish

Colour Profile: Melancholic
Effect Level: 80
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: 0.25
Mid-Range Sharpening: -2.00
Clarity: 5.00
Contrast: 3.00
Saturation: 3.00

Film #04 Retro 1

Colour Profile: Toy
Effect Level: 80
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: 4.25
Mid-Range Sharpening: 2.00
Clarity: 3.00
Contrast: -1.50
Saturation: 3.00

Film #05 Retro 2

Colour Profile: Pop
Effect Level: 80
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: 4.75
Mid-Range Sharpening: 2.50
Clarity: 5.00
Contrast: -3.00
Saturation: -1.50
Hue: -3.00

Film #06 Faded Glory

Colour Profile: Dream
Effect Level: 80
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: -0.50
Mid-Range Sharpening: -1.00
Clarity: -5.00
Contrast: 3.00
Saturation: -3.00
Hue: 3.00

Film #07 Muddy

Colour Profile: Sepia
Effect Level: 60
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: 5.75
Mid-Range Sharpening: 3.25
Clarity: 3.25
Contrast: -1.00
Filter Effect: None
Toning: 7.00

Film #08 Brownstone

Colour Profile: Charcoal
Effect Level: 60
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: 3.75
Mid-Range Sharpening: 2.00
Clarity: 2.75
Contrast: 0
Filter Effect: Green
Toning: Red
Adjust Saturation 5.00

Film #09 Candypop

Colour Profile: Sunday
Effect Level: 80
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: 4.00
Mid-Range Sharpening: 3.00
Clarity: 2.25
Contrast: -1.50
Saturation: 2.00
Hue: -3.00

Film #10 Dream

Colour Profile: Toy
Effect Level: 60
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: 4.00
Mid-Range Sharpening: -3.00
Clarity: -3.00
Contrast: -3.00
Saturation: -3.00

Film #11 Faded Film

Colour Profile: Charcoal
Effect Level: 40
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: 4.00
Mid-Range Sharpening: 1.00
Clarity: 2.00
Contrast: 3.00
Filter Effect: None
Toning: Red
Adjust Saturation: 5.75

Film #12 Faded Film 2

Colour Profile: Charcoal
Effect Level: 30
Quick Sharp: 0
Sharpening: 6.50
Mid-Range Sharpening: 3.00
Clarity: 5.00
Contrast: 3.00
Filter Effect Red
Toning: B&W

The Monochrome Film-Ish Collection (Coming soon!)
A collection of Monochrome developed film recipes.

The Utility Collection (Coming soon!)
A collection of tweaked Landscape, Portrait and Neutral fine-tined colour profiles that give you far better images straight from camera!


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