Canon Picture Styles and Film Simulations
Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time testing Picture Styles – Canon’s version of Fujifilm’s in-camera film emulations.
I’m not typically a JPEG shooter. I prefer to grab my RAW files and edit them in Lightroom, but in a few cases, using film-like simulations was very efficient and convenient.
In this video, I show the results of those tests and try to explain the benefits of shooting with Picture Styles. It’s also a nice option for those Fuji users if they ever have to pick up a Canon camera and shoot film-like emulations, like their beloved Classic Chrome. Picture Styles don’t have the legacy of Fuji making its own film, but they get you pretty close.
There are two groups of Picture Styles I tested:
- Thomas Fransson’s Kodak and Fuji simulations
- Vision Wrangler’s collection of 158 Picture Styles (sadly, only available on the Cinescopophilia archive page)
Plus a Canassic (Classic) Chrome preset that’s been abandoned.
You can read my individual reviews of these picture styles:
- Classic Chrome (a Fuji classic brought to Canon)
- Kodachrome (my favorite – from the VW collection)
- T-Max black and white (from the VW collection)
- Crowdak (from Thomas Fransson)
- Pro Neigh High (from Thomas Fransson)
Canon also lets you build your own Picture Styles using the Picture Style Editor software.
Which ones have you tried? Any of them work for your style? Let me know in the comments.