[Nuno Faria]

Since the primary goal of Maxwell Render is imitating a real camera, we cant forget about the film that this camera use.
I will suggest the introduction of a film type as an optional feature.

Something like this:

KODAK 35mm Slide Film

KODAK PROFESSIONAL ELITE Chrome 100 Film
Fine Grain
KODAK PROFESSIONAL ELITE Chrome 100 Film delivers extremely fine grain, pure colors and natural skin tones. It’s ideal for close-ups, portraits, and enlargements.
Extremely fine grain
Rich, pure colors and natural skin tones

KODAK PROFESSIONAL ELITE Chrome Extra Color 100 Film
Vivid Colors
KODAK PROFESSIONAL ELITE Chrome Extra Color 100 Film offers bright, bold, saturated colors, exceptional sharpness and very fine grain. It’s the perfect choice when shooting nature, wildlife, and scenics.
Produces vibrant, saturated colors
Outstanding sharpness and resolution

KODAK PROFESSIONAL ELITE Chrome 200 Film
General Purpose
KODAK PROFESSIONAL ELITE Chrome 200 Film provides higher speed without sacrificing image quality, making it a great general purpose film under variable lighting conditions or at higher shutter speeds.
Maximum versatility under variable lighting
Very fine grain

.... and so on....

FUJIFILM 35mm Slide Film

FUJICHROME Velvia100F
Professional-quality, medium-speed, daylight-type color reversal film with ultrafine grain, designed to produce high-contrast images with the highest color saturation among 100F series films. Incorporates new cyan, magenta and yellow couplers.
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Suited to a variety of uses such as landscape, nature, commercial, food, and interior applications.

FUJICHROME ASTIA100F

Professional-quality, medium-speed, daylight-type color reversal film with ultrafine grain (RMS: 7), subdued color reproduction and the softest tone reproduction among the 100F films. Incorporates new cyan, magenta and yellow couplers.
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Suited to such uses as fashion, portraiture, interior, and product photography.

... and so on ...

Of course we can do this correction in post process, but would be really nice if we can get this feature inside maxwell.

It turns it into a much more complete product, IMO.

best regards,
nuno

[Tim Ellis]

Different film stocks would also be a great addition to this, perhaps a calibration look up table that gives us a drop down menu in the camera options.


I use a Kodak box at work which references film stock using a very similar method.

Tim.

[dyarza]

Yes, that would be great.

I know that Fuji Velvia 50 was discontinued (pending the return as Velvia2) but all things being virtual can we have it too?

[CJElven]

I'm sure that there would be all kinds of problems with licensing. They could make up film stocks, I suppose, but that sort of leaves people hanging about what they should be using, since these stocks are known with their names and numbers.

[Thomas Schneider]

what about old films? like films manufactured since 1900. qualities changed all the time and the aesthetics was very different.
*different s/w films
*different color films

[simmsimaging]

Film?!

....bunch of Luddites.




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[dyarza]

Film?!

....bunch of Luddites.




b

He, he, he...

[m-Que]

GREAT IDEA

[Tyrone Marshall]

Are there any digital film back camera that emulate natural film grain patterns like what is being asked?

I am curious, if they do not then maybe the question is, should Maxwell Render be more like a high end digital camera, a high end film emulation camera or something entirely different?

[simmsimaging]

Personally I think Maxwell should stay focused on stuff that you need render engines for. Matching film looks is more what image editors like Pshop and Gimp are built for. Trying to squeeze too much out of one program waters down the specialty, and makes things harder to update etc.

Are there any digital film back camera that emulate natural film grain patterns like what is being asked?

I am curious, if they do not then maybe the question is, should Maxwell Render be more like a high end digital camera, a high end film emulation camera or something entirely different?

I am not aware of that kind of function in the high-end cameras and software, but it may be out there. I would think though that if Next Limit wanted to create render "presets" to match photos/cameras then it would be much more useful to match current digital cameras (Canon 1DS, p45, Imacon backs etc.) since that is more likely to be what we need to composite with renders.

Just my opinion of course.

[Hervé]

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/magicbu ... mages.html

[Becco_UK]

If this good idea ever gets introduced into Maxwell then I would like 'old' films to also be included - ie- early 1900's

[deadalvs]

If this good idea ever gets introduced into Maxwell then I would like 'old' films to also be included - ie- early 1900's

yeah, and if you look at the rendering a year later it's gonna be tinted sepia...