The Profile Selection Project

I am now deep into the project of figuring out which film simulation profiles to select for my little Sony ZV-1. As previously described, there are about 85 profiles in the recipe book, and the camera has slots for 10 of them at a time. I’ll need to pick and choose. Basically I want to cover a range of styles. Of the 10 slots, I will reserve one for scratch, and two of them will be monochrome styles: one low-contrast, and the other high-contrast. This leaves seven for color profiles. The way to figure which to choose is to do lots of testing. So now when I go for my morning and late-afternoon walks I load up the camera with a new profile and take some pictures using it.

At right is an example comparing four different color profiles. The photos were taken one after another.