Thanks, William. I think the Alien Skin plug-in is a sort of one-size-fits-all program for all digital files for all cameras, and cannot be used directly with the raw data. I was thinking more in terms of a set of tonal curves and color adjustments that would be "tuned" to the raw files of a specific MFDB and could be accessed right in the raw converter. I looked at the "Styles" in the Phase raw software when I was considering a Phase back, but there were just two generic "Styles", one for Ektachrome and one for Agfachrome. (Maybe they think Fuji is/was a small player in the world film market.)
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C-1 has a color editor that allows to to selectively single out colors and change their hue, saturation and lightness, It takes about 30 minutes to learn and about 20 seconds to apply in the real world which allows you to make your own film profile on the fly.
A lot of the post processing software like Alien Skin is good and or course with enough time and effort you can make any image look like virtually any film or non film stock using photoshop.
I think it depends on your perspective and how you want to work and this is my point about options with cameras.
On set do you want to show a non representative look of the image with the explanation of we will get there in post produciton, or do you want to show as an exact look as possible?
When I'm shooting on my own, it doesn't really matter than I'm exact on the day, knowing what I can do in post, but in a room full of 11 clients, you want to get there as fast as possible and have every frame as close to the "film look" as you can get.
I work closely with an AD that has a very trained, but un technical eye.
Shooting a digital polaroid with a zeiss lens always makes him think it looks digitlal or too over sharpened. With the Contax I can put the Pentax 6x7 lenses on that are smoother and softer and he immedatly says film.
So for me having this option is a plus and even though a software suite like lightroom allows us to make a lot of changes and a lot of looks, today lightroom really isn't a fast tethering software so showing the exact look on a busy set is difficult, especially if you want every frame to appear in "your" film look.
C-1 comes closer than any on set software I've seen, but having the option of changing lenses is also a great benefit.
I hold to my premise that a lot of us bought digital backs for the options they present and to have choices that the all in one nature of the dslrs don't offer.
But to be clear, I'm not against the HY6 and sincerly hope it's a success, I just don't want to see all these other cameras also locked out or quietly removed from the digital process through lack of R+D or even a predetermined desire to move us into once direction and only one solution.
JR
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