Old Skin Tone Formula vs Today's Skin Tone Formula

absquatulate wrote:

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

absquatulate wrote:

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

While the SOOC jpeg results do vary a bit from generation to generation, It doesn't look the film sims themselves change much, but some of the ancillary processing does. With some tweaking of the jpeg settings (saturation, highlights, shadows etc) you should be able to get close. Even more important, you may have to play with the Auto-WB shift and Exposure Compensation to really dial in the look.

With RAW files, the Camera matching profiles (in Lightroom, anyway) can vary significantly from from one model camera to another (the X-T3 being more different than the others). Any of them can be tweaked and saved as a new profile to closely match any of the other camera/profile combos with a little know-how. If you want your X-H1 (or whatever) files to look more like what you get with your older cameras, it's absolutely doable - especially if you're just try to match another Fuji.

If you can make a Sony look like a Fuji, you can make one Fuji look like another Fuji.

A Sony RAW with a custom profile to match the X-T2 (Classic Chrome)

They don't look the same to me, the Fuji profile has more vibrant colour.

Close enough, nothing a tiny slider tweak wouldn’t take care of. If you shot this scene a couple of years apart with two Fuji cameras it wouldn’t look exactly the same either.

Personally I don't buy it, all different sensors have a different colour response, you may get close, but there are always differences, especially when you start shooting in the real world, as opposed to consistent controlled studio lighting.

I've processed Fuji and Sony files shot together from a wedding in all sorts of mixed lighting and they were very close - close enough that no one would ever notice that they weren't shot with a single camera.

Low incandescent light, very high ISO and still in the ballpark.