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Recipes in Field
A recipe is a set of settings on top of a film. Field uses the scales that film recipes shared online use, so the numbers will feel familiar.
Making one
Tap the film you are using. Two pads open while the viewfinder stays live:
- Tone: left and right is shadows, open to deep. Up and down is highlights, soft to bright.
- Color: left and right is color, muted to vivid. Up and down is warmth, cool to warm.
The center of each pad is the film as designed. Drag the dot and it settles on the nearest step. All Settings has every value, the base film, and Share. Give it a name and save; it appears next to the built-in films.
The settings
| Highlights | -2 to +4 in half steps. Plus is brighter, harder highlights. Minus is softer. |
| Shadows | -2 to +4 in half steps. Plus is darker, harder shadows. Minus is more open. |
| Color | -4 to +4. Plus is more saturated. Skin follows only partly, so vivid landscapes don't come with orange faces. Not in black and white. |
| White Balance | Auto, a preset (Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, Incandescent, Fluorescent) or a Kelvin value. Set on the camera when you pick the film. |
| Red Shift, Blue Shift | -9 to +9 each, like a white balance shift grid. Warmth on the pad moves both together. |
| Color Depth | Off, Weak, Strong. Strongly colored areas get deeper, with more detail. |
| Blue Depth | Off, Weak, Strong. The same for blues only: deeper skies and water. |
| Sharpness | -4 to +4. Plus is crisper. With RAW, -4 means no sharpening at all. |
| Grain | Off, or Weak or Strong, each Small or Large. |
Bringing in a recipe from online
- Pick the Field film closest in spirit to the recipe’s base: natural, soft, saturated, muted, negative, cinematic or black and white. Films describes each.
- Type in the numbers you can: highlights, shadows, color, sharpness, white balance and its shift, grain, color depth.
- Look through the viewfinder and adjust. Then shoot it for a day before you judge it.
Some settings found in recipes don’t exist in Field yet: dynamic range, noise reduction and clarity. If a recipe uses a high dynamic range setting to protect highlights, try one step lower on Highlights instead. Clarity is planned.
Same numbers, different camera
The scales are shared, the strengths are Field’s own. An iPhone sensor, its processing and Field’s films are not another camera, so the same numbers give a related result, not the same one. A recipe is a starting point.
Pasting a recipe’s text to make a film, and opening a shared film directly in Field, are both planned.
Sharing
All Settings, Share: sends a card of the film with its recipe as text, readable by anyone, with or without Field.