“… the X1D-50c is capable of capturing an extremely wide dynamic range of up to 14 stops along with vivid 16-bit color depth. The ‘Hasselblad X1D’ and ‘Minolta 5D, 7D’ presets in the huge ‘Camera Body’ collection also look promising, especially given the properties of the actual Hasselblad X1D:

I’ve yet to compare all three versions of Astia in the latest PhotoLab and FilmPack Elite software, but will keep exploring them with photographs made of a number of subjects under a range of weather, light and colours.Īnother of the many joys of those two DxO applications is their inclusion of camera sensor profiles that can be selected and used like film simulations, so I have added some of both to the gallery above.

That version’s rendering of skin under sunlight is impressive and moire realistic than Velvia or Kodachrome, while its depiction of foliage, skies and the objects of the manmade world are rich and can be made even richer by applying some micro-contrast, saturation and vibrance in DxO PhotoLab’s controls. I didn’t have the pleasure of using Fujichrome Astia 100F and can’t recall ever seeing it in the fridge at the suppliers and photo labs I frequented.ĭuring my magazine and newspaper photography career I relied on colour transparency aka reversal aka slide films rather than colour negative aka print films, although I was familiar with the pros and cons of the latter from my years processing and printing colour for a state government department.ĭxO’s Astia simulation in ‘Digital Films’ renders skin beautifully and much more realistically than my usual choices for scenic photography, ‘Fuji Velvia 50’ and ‘Generic Fuji Velvia 100’ in the ‘Color Positive Film’ film simulations collection.ĭxO provides other simulations of Astia in the ‘Color Positive Film’ collection, ‘Fuji Astia 100F’ and ‘Generic Fuji Astia 100’, but I’ve been using the new ‘Digital Films’ version the most lately. In the digital era, that might no longer be the case as I find myself relying more and more on DxO’s ‘Fuji Astia Soft’ film simulation in the ‘Digital Films’ collection of DxO PhotoLab 5 Elite and DxO FilmPack 6 Elite. Konica Minolta Maxxum aka Dynax 5D 6-megapixel DSLR with in-body image stabilization.

Dxo filmpack 5 presets