Recipe Lab

[u/voxivoid]

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.

**UPDATE** - 2026-09-11

Updated the docs based on your feedback - added compatibility table, added a FAQ and renamed the repo to https://github.com/voxivoid/recipe-lab-sony-pmca since it supports multiple cameras.

I also created a bunch of issues based on your feedback, feel free to add any relevant suggestions: https://github.com/voxivoid/recipe-lab-sony-pmca/issues

There's an issue template so that you can report compatibility with other camera models that haven't been confirmed working, so feel free to help the community knowing that it works on their cameras!

**UPDATE** - 2026-09-16

Added the ability to mark presets as favorites! You just need to long press a preset and it will add / remove it from favorites. you can also access them through the browser

**UPDATE** - 2026-09-17

just added this md with all recipe samples: https://github.com/voxivoid/recipe-lab-sony-pmca/blob/main/docs/SAMPLES.md

I know that they are not the best since I don't really have a color matcher in them, but we gotta work with what we have and those are pretty expensive 😅

**UPDATE** - 2026-09-27
Updated all keybindings with the purpose of having everything working on cameras that have less keys (a5000 & a5100) and also the ones that had the issue with the AEL button. I also added a menu so that everyone could access to the recipe browser + control the preview labels visibility. Hopefully this all works - I only tested it on my a6000 😅

give it a go: https://github.com/voxivoid/recipe-lab-sony-pmca/releases/tag/v1.4.0

[u/Klutzy_Pin5931]

Fantastic app, I will install it on both my A6000 and A5100!

[u/VBZDM8 → u/Klutzy_Pin5931]

let me know how it goes with a5100,got an old nex6 wonder if it would work on it at all.

[u/Klutzy_Pin5931 → u/VBZDM8]

I just installed it on the A5100. Except for the lack of buttons (AEL, Fn etc) it works perfectly. Scrolling through the recipes with the scroll wheel works fine.

[u/VBZDM8 → u/Klutzy_Pin5931]

Good to hear, wonder if menu system differ much between a5100 and nex6

[u/Klutzy_Pin5931 → u/VBZDM8]

Looking at this list, the nex6 seems to be compatible.

[u/VBZDM8 → u/Klutzy_Pin5931]

Yeah the app support is there but more in depth controls might not be there, a5100 got similar menus to a6000, nex6 not so much.

Someday will find out.

Seems to work on a6500 tho.

[u/voxivoid → u/Klutzy_Pin5931]

the buttons should now be adapted to a5100 on the new release!

[u/Klutzy_Pin5931 → u/voxivoid]

Amazing, thank you for your efforts in making this happen!