Given that I have been at this game for a loooong time, there are occasions when I have the odd brain fart and I need another point of view to check I am not going insane.
When I process my own files, they are always RAW, unless they (rarely) come from my iPhone, when they will be JPEG.
However, I have a client who uses a Fujifilm X100VI and tends to do as much in the camera as possible, producing only JPEG files. He sets the film type in the camera (e.g. Provia, Velvia, etc)
Am I right in assuming that setting the rendering in PhotoLab to the same as the camera film will double the application of that rendering, once in the camera JPEG and again in PhotoLab?
It would be interesting, if your client is willing, to take a shot with no processing and one with processing so you could bring both into PL for comparison to FilmPack’s effect.
I just found samples of this Fuji camera body on the web, both raw and corresponding JPEG.
In PhotoLab :
the default color rendering of the raw file is: Generic rendering/Body rendering (Provia standard), in my example.
the JPEG color rendering is: Generic rendering/Default color profile.
So, clearly, there’s no risk of double-correction: the Fuji rendering is not used for JPEGs (at least in the tests I’ve done), even though the Fuji profile information is present in the JPEG’s EXIF.
A jpeg is a fully processed file so anything set in camera will be applied to that jpeg. Bringing those processed jpegs into PL and applying another film profile will absolutely double the effect.
It’s more complicated than that in the case of Fujifilms.
If a specific Fuji rendering (film rendering) has been chosen in the camera for JPEGs (e.g., Provia Standard, Velvia, etc.), PhotoLab will emulate this rendering when processing a raw file, provided the corresponding box has been checked in the PL preferences.
The risk was that PhotoLab would automatically reprocess the JPEG with this film rendering, since it is automatically detected by PhotoLab.
After verification, this is not the case: if we leave “Default Color Rendering/Default Color Profile” for the JPEG, no rendering is applied. This is easily verified by unchecking the Color Rendering setting: there is no colorimetric change in the image.
