Scott’s Ilford 400 Film Recipe for Nikon Z

Today I am sharing my first Flexible Picture Control for Nikon Z cameras. It was specifically developed to be used on the Nikon Zf alongside the new Film Grain feature that came with firmware 3.0.

First step: click to download the picture control

Once downloaded, copy the file to your camera’s SD card. Navigate to Camera > Manage Picture Control > Load/Save to get it assigned into a custom slot.

I pay attention to 3 settings when using this picture control

• Active D-Lighting - usually set to Normal, but will move to High if an extremely high contrast scene

• Film Grain - turned ON and set to Medium 2

• Exposure Compensation - usually set at either +1/3 or +2/3 to offset the loss of contrast Active D-Lighting introduces.

I also tend to manually set my White Balance to 10,000K for all black and white picture controls for brighter whites.

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