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FREE LEICA STYLES FOR CAPTURE ONE
Whilst no substitute for the physical medium curiously curling around in our canisters, nor an all in one solution, these Styles seek to take full advantage the flexibility offered to us by colour capturing sensor technologies, providing an efficient black and white conversation, emulating response-curves associated with various film emulsion technologies - for further information on how each specific Style works, I'll refer to the following sections.
COMPATIBILITY
Although these black and white colour conversion Syles are specifically created for the Leica M Typ. 262, utilizing any ISO between 200 and 2500, they have proven themselves effective on other systems, notably the digital backs of Phase One's P+ series; aiming for an exposure of minus one or two thirds of a stop is in any case what I'll recommend for best results.
The Styles are very sensitive to white balance deviations, so please make sure to set yours manually; to take advantage of the optional tools first make sure the Stack Styles setting is active, then either apply them directly or as a separate layer.
DOWNLOAD
Click here, or the button below, to download the Styles, an installation guide is available on Capture One's website if needed: https://learn.captureone.com/
Though the Styles are absolutely free to download, install, use and modify however you see fit, it'll be greatly appreciated if you'd kindly consider making a small contribution for the years of coffee grinding which they are built upon.
ALL INCLUSIVE
TEN STYLES, 5 TWEAKING TOOLS, 1 DOWNLOAD
ACHROMATIC
The Achromatic Style seeks to nullify manufacturer colour calculations when converting colourimages to grayscale by utilizing Capture One's ability to ignore colour corrections doing demosaicing.
ORTHOCHROMATIC
Being based on the late 18th century bear blue-sensitive silver halide responses this Style lightly lightens blues while colours above 600 nm will increasingly darken.
PANCHROMATIC
As of the early 19th century the ability to capture the wider visible spectrum became ever increasingly prominent, likewise, this style provides a more contemporary response.
PANCHROMATIC (Y)
Delicately darkening blues whilst lightly lightening yellows this Style stands to emulate the blue absorbing effects achieved when using a yellow filter on panchromatic film.
PANCHROMATIC (O)
With a versatile warm tone preference similar to that of the Panchromatic (Y), the Panchromatic (O) is yet even more pronounced in it's darkening of cyan thus delivering slightly higher contrast.
PANCHROMATIC (R)
Scaled back in order to provide a somewhat more natural rendering Panchromatic (R) aims to de-dramatize the effect obtained by the use of a red filter on Panchromatic film.
PANCHROMATIC (R+)
By further distancing itself from the cooler colours Panchromatic (R+) greatly increases contrast between greens and reds thereby delivering an arguably more pronounced effect.
PANCHROMATIC (G)
Like a green filter on panchromatic film Panchromatic (G) is aiming to provide greater definition in the 500-600nm range whilst darkening reds and deep blues.
PANCHROMATIC (B)
Not too dissimilar to orthochromatic imaging yet remaining responsive above 600nm this Style seek to emulate the use of a Blue 85B filter on daylight balanced black and white panchromatic film.
CONTEMPORARY
A carefully crafted contemporary colour conversion capturing the modern digital delivery by mixing and matching colour responses in ways not easily don by optical filtration.
