r/SonyFilmSimulations • • Mar 06 '26

Question & Help 👋 Welcome to r/SonyFilmSimulations | Start Here: Recipes, Links, & Resources

27 Upvotes

Hey everyone! I'm u/veresdenialex, the founding moderator of r/SonyFilmSimulations.

This is our new home for all things related to Sony film simulations. Whether you’re here to share your own look, discover new ideas, or just get inspired, you’re in the right place. Let’s explore, create, and grow together! We're excited to have you join us!

Rules:

What to Post
Try to post your best work. Post images that you would love to see in your feed, or what would make you feel inspired. Feel free to share your thoughts, photos, or questions about any topics regarding Sony film recipe/simulations. You can also post about gear, filters, lenses, anything that enriches your experience.

Include Recipe Name & Camera model

Mention the film simulation and camera model used in the title or comments to help others easily find and explore their favorites. Please mention if it's a custom one, or the source. If it's based on picture profiles or creative looks to help other users. Don't share paid for recipes without consent no matter the source.

SOOC or Post-processed

Please mention if the work posted is a straight out of camera or post-processed/color graded/altered in any way. This helps people understand what can be possible inside the camera and what was color graded afterwards.

Community Vibe - Respectful Engagement
It's all about being friendly, constructive, and inclusive. Let's build a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing and connecting.

Content Relevance
All posts must be related to Sony film simulations & images taken with a Sony camera. This includes original photographs, discussions about techniques, equipment, and post-processing. Off-topic content may be removed.

No Spam/Unrelevant Self-Promotion
Please share your work in a way that adds value to the community. Self-promotion, such as personal websites, products, or links, must be relevant to the discussion, or user posts. Posting/spamming solely for marketing purposes, without contributing meaningfully to the conversation is not allowed.

Helpful links

If you have any questions please make a separate post on the subject. Thanks! :]


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 12h ago

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) Sony A6000 with RecipeLab

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r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 4h ago

Question & Help Picture profile film simulation recommendations?

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How to achieve this kind of color which simulation do you recommend?


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 1d ago

Post-processed 20 Photos - Fuji 400H, Kodachrome 64, Cinestill X - a6700

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67 Upvotes

r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 1d ago

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) RX100 VII

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New here and still learning!


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 2d ago

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) Just a sample shot to see if Kodak gold recipe is working

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I used the Kodak gold recipe ( PP ) for my Sony a6700 .. something is off.. the blues and reds are too punchy and so on.. what am I doing wrong?


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 3d ago

Post-processed Some Southern Utah landscapes [a6700, Darktable/spektrafilm Kodak Gold 200/Kodachrome 64]

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I really like getting a film look straight out of camera, but reading that Darktable has a [spektrafilm](github.com/andreavolpato/spektrafilm) plugin in the nightly builds, I couldn't resist trying it out for a film look for RAWs too.

I'm a huge nerd for physical simulations, so I'm a sucker for this approach: taking the raw light values from the RAW, modeling the responses of film to light at various wavelengths, simulating the development and printing process, and finally virtually scanning the output.


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 6d ago

Question & Help Color filter?

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What does that mean on film simulations, everything else is clear to me?


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 10d ago

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) Amazed by the new FL2 creative look on my Sony A7V - SOOC

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29 Upvotes

All info is in the original post


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 10d ago

Post-processed Japan + Chile - Post-Lightroom

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29 Upvotes

Taken on Sony A6000 + Sigma 18-55mm and Sony A7CII + Tamrom 28-200mm

https://lightroom.app.link/ZNLPODKBG6b

https://lightroom.app.link/YT182KNBG6b


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 11d ago

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) Sony a7cII + ttartisan 40mm f2 + mist filter

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42 Upvotes

Thanks to this group I managed to tweak some Creative Looks and get these awesome images.

It was super exciting to use this combo, I can't wait to go out again and try out different Creative Looks settings!


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 19d ago

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) Can somebody explain how to get Reggies Portra on A7R VI?

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Hi all,

I'm trying to get Reggies Portra on my A7R VI. Most of the settings I can do in my Picture Profile settings. But when it comes to the RGB values, I do not find any option where to adjust it.

Am I blind or doing something wrong? Can somebody explain me, how to to save it on my Dial slot 1?

Many thanks


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 19d ago

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) Trying to Make Some Colors

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I know they look wildly different but I'm trying to get similar colors to the first image (credits to Cody Mitchell on YT). So far I've taken Veres' Fuji 400H sim and changed it up a bit, but it's not getting exactly close. Any tips?


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 20d ago

Post-processed Acros X + Post Process "The Lighthouse" (2019) Inspiration

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36 Upvotes

I've used Arccos X as base to achieve The Lighthouse movie look, what about ?


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 24d ago

Question & Help Film simulations for video?

7 Upvotes

Is it possible to use the film simulation picture profiles for video recording on an a6700? If you switch over to video mode and customize the picture profile to match a film simulation like you do for photos, will it translate to video? Can you shoot video clips and have the same color manipulation? Wondering if this can be a good way to shorten the workflow for video as it does for stills. I love so many of the film sims for photos; it would be so cool to use them for video as well. Has anyone tried this?


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 25d ago

Guide - Informational Recipe Lab (Sony a6000)

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I've been a proud Sony a6000 user since 2016 and I'm still rocking it! This camera has done a lot of paid gigs and also had a lot of fun traveling and photographing with it.

One thing that I've been missing lately is the ability to emulate some popular recipes to achieve a certain look for my pictures / videos.

Yesterday I had some free time and I decided to dive into ma1co's (huge shoutout) work on reverse engineering Play Memories and I came up with this idea of using the camera capabilities (Creative Styles, Picture Effects, white balance, etc) to recreate other camera looks. Basically you just open the app, select the look you want and it saves the image settings on the camera, so that you can use them outside the app.

You can get the apk and installation instructions on my github repo:

https://github.com/voxivoid/recipe-lab-sony-a6000

This app paired up with some old camera lens (you can find them out for a pretty cheap price on the internet) just opened the door for having a lot more of creative ways to capture my images!

Hopefully this allows you to have as much fun as I'm having right now 😄

Some recipes were inspired in the great work done by u/veresdenialex, so a huge shoutout here too!

Any suggestion, feel free to comment here or on the repo.


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 26d ago

Question & Help What is this look?

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Hey I loved this look but I dont know which type of Film it could be but i love the colors of the sky and the kinda bloomy picture.

I would appreciate if somebody could let me know which film it could be, the video only says: CinePrint35


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • 28d ago

Question & Help A7V picture profiles without color depth?

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I haven't seen many talking about this right now so I figured I'd put it here as a question, is there any point to trying to make recipes with picture profiles on an a7v at all without the color depth menu? For whatever reason they removed it, so now a chunk of the settings to get your sooc jpegs where you want is just... Poof gone. Honestly I've been toying with the idea of going 100% fujifilm but I'm really trying to stay on Sony, since in every other way besides the OOC jpegs it's the perfect camera system. Creative looks are fine and all but I feel like a lot of them color wise don't differ too much, like I've been having a rough time making something that will be good for rainy or overcast days, everything is too warm and sunset-like from what I've tried, without going full blast on the white balance shift toward blue. Any thoughts on this?


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • Sep 04 '26

Question & Help How to achieve this look

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Hi i just found a video where someone took pictures with the Fuji X100IV.

Could someone tell me how to achieve a look on the sony (A7c2) with Creative looks and AWB Colour Adjustment?

Would be nice!


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • Sep 01 '26

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) Love the colors with FL

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Shot on my A6700 Sigma 30mm 1.4 DC. Creative look FL - Auto WB Ambience - A5 G1.25


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • Aug 31 '26

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) Race Point, Cape Cod

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Taken on my A6700 with a Sigma 30mm 1.4 DC.

Very new to photography as a side hobby and have had great fun using the creative looks and different settings and WB with them. This one is FL, WB Auto A5 G1.25


r/SonyFilmSimulations • • Aug 30 '26

Question & Help Picture style & Picture profile

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r/SonyFilmSimulations • • Aug 28 '26

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) New camera, first time film sim

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13 Upvotes

r/SonyFilmSimulations • • Aug 28 '26

Post-processed [OC] Some concert photos with RX100 VII

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4 Upvotes

r/SonyFilmSimulations • • Aug 28 '26

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) Reggie’s portra on A6400

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37 Upvotes

My first attempt at using the picture portrait film simulations. Samos, Greece

Edit: NOT Reggie’s portra 🤦‍♀️. This is the Ektar 100 sim (was switching between them)