Stevenson Gawen
Well-Known Member
Andrea over on discuss.pixls.us has recently published an experimental film simulation program which is pretty much unique as far as I know in that it actually simulates in software the complete chemical and physical processes in the film development and printing process, unlike all the others I've seen that simply recreate the colour palette of the end result.
He's anxious to point out that it's not finished software yet, but it is usable and I for one am quite impressed. The halation especially is very impressive - there's quite a few sample images in this thread: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/spectral-film-simulations-from-scratch/48209
The software is written in Python, so it's not quite a one click installation, but with some help from a friend and some more from ChatGPT (!) I got it running on my Windows laptop and am loving some of the results I'm seeing. It's slow though.
Here's a recent street shot from me, shot on my D750 with 50mm f1.8D.
He's anxious to point out that it's not finished software yet, but it is usable and I for one am quite impressed. The halation especially is very impressive - there's quite a few sample images in this thread: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/spectral-film-simulations-from-scratch/48209
The software is written in Python, so it's not quite a one click installation, but with some help from a friend and some more from ChatGPT (!) I got it running on my Windows laptop and am loving some of the results I'm seeing. It's slow though.
Here's a recent street shot from me, shot on my D750 with 50mm f1.8D.
