Most film presets try to give you one look: point a preset at a photo and get "the Portra effect" or "the Tri-X effect." That was never the goal here.

The idea behind Classic Film Styles for Capture One 2020 was to build a toolbox — not a single look, but a modular system, brought natively into Capture One's color engine. Real film photography was never one film, one scanner, one process. Part of what makes analog photography feel alive is that combinatorial richness: the same negative can become a dozen different images depending on how it's developed, scanned and printed.

So instead of picking one interpretation and calling it done, the collection was built to let you choose — stack a film stock with the right contrast curve and color cast, push or pull the exposure, and build the combination that fits the image in front of you. It's less a filter and more a set of instruments: pick the film, pick the character, build what the shot calls for.

A toolbox for every job

That's why Classic Film Styles for Capture One 2020 grew into 62 meticulously crafted Styles spanning negative films, positive and slide stocks, and black & white — Portra, Ektachrome, Fuji 400H, Kodachrome, Tri-X, and dozens more, each capturing the mood, color science and contrast curve of the film it's built from, natively inside Capture One's color engine rather than layered on top of it.

Where authenticity meets versatility — that's the whole idea. Whatever the shot calls for, the toolbox has a combination for it.

Compatible with Capture One 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, Pro 16, and 16.7.1.

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Pictures by: Daniel Dittus, Maximilian Goedecke, André Duhme and Felix Rödiger