X-PRO2, Acros & SOOC… | Patrick La Roque
I’m not done with the Six Days in Tokyo series just yet, but I’m sidetracking it for today. I’ve been intrigued by the new Acros film simulation in the new X-Pro2 ever since I got my hands on the prototype and have experimented on and off with it for months now. In fact I’ve based my X-Pro2 BW in-camera preset on it. When I was in Japan I had a conversation with one of the engineers who asked me what I thought of it. I replied that my initial side by side comparisons with standard monochrome showed visible but subtle differences, but that I’d noticed some much more interesting results when using the new expanded push/pull capabilities (which I wrote about in our collective review on KAGE). I told him it seemed very intentional, as if the simulation was meant to be tweaked this way: he smiled and confirmed it was. Yesterday morning I stumbled across Donovan Bond’s analysis (on Fuji vs Fuji) of the company’s official post on this new film simulation and I followed the link to that article—this is a long excerpt but it’s extremely interesting……
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