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Canon Film Recipes Pack

$15.00

After spending years shooting with Fujifilm and Nikon recipes, I decided to give Canon recipes a shot. I spent weeks developing these looks utilizing both my favorite Fujifilm and Nikon recipes as references. Thus these recreate modern “film simulation” recipes from within those camera systems.

Look I could fill this page with a bunch of selling points and buzzwords like “creates creamy warmth that exudes classic nostalgia looks,” or “takes your boring in camera raws to film-like hipster bliss.” While those are obviously true, the reality is these are great presets but they aren’t going to make your Canon images look like faded 1980’s film classics. Judge the results from the pictures I’ve provided here and enjoy the process but it’s still up to you to create the images - my recipe pack isn’t going to help you there.

Within this pack you’ll find 5 varied recipes that handle a myriad of different styles and conditions. You’ll find traditional names such as “P400,” “Velvia,” and “Gold.” Along with some random names such as “Lerxt” and “Pratt.” (if you know these references, you are my kinda people). Each recipe is unique rather than slight variations of the same style within this pack. For example one recipe tends to warm up the image with more golden saturation while another leaves the image muted and flatter. Thus you’ll find these to work in different scenarios and situations quite well.

All of these can be used with auto white balance but you may find better results setting to warmer white balances in many situations. For example, setting your white balance 500-700 Kelvin higher than what the conditions actually call for. If you don’t know what this means, that’s totally okay as these should work great with everything set to auto (all of my example images used auto white balance).

Below you’ll find a gallery of images, how to install these on to your Canon camera, and some frequently asked questions.

After spending years shooting with Fujifilm and Nikon recipes, I decided to give Canon recipes a shot. I spent weeks developing these looks utilizing both my favorite Fujifilm and Nikon recipes as references. Thus these recreate modern “film simulation” recipes from within those camera systems.

Look I could fill this page with a bunch of selling points and buzzwords like “creates creamy warmth that exudes classic nostalgia looks,” or “takes your boring in camera raws to film-like hipster bliss.” While those are obviously true, the reality is these are great presets but they aren’t going to make your Canon images look like faded 1980’s film classics. Judge the results from the pictures I’ve provided here and enjoy the process but it’s still up to you to create the images - my recipe pack isn’t going to help you there.

Within this pack you’ll find 5 varied recipes that handle a myriad of different styles and conditions. You’ll find traditional names such as “P400,” “Velvia,” and “Gold.” Along with some random names such as “Lerxt” and “Pratt.” (if you know these references, you are my kinda people). Each recipe is unique rather than slight variations of the same style within this pack. For example one recipe tends to warm up the image with more golden saturation while another leaves the image muted and flatter. Thus you’ll find these to work in different scenarios and situations quite well.

All of these can be used with auto white balance but you may find better results setting to warmer white balances in many situations. For example, setting your white balance 500-700 Kelvin higher than what the conditions actually call for. If you don’t know what this means, that’s totally okay as these should work great with everything set to auto (all of my example images used auto white balance).

Below you’ll find a gallery of images, how to install these on to your Canon camera, and some frequently asked questions.

Example Gallery

All images below are unedited, straight out of camera jpegs using only the recipes in this pack. Shot with Canon R7

Gold

Gold

Gold

Gold

P400

P400

Lerxt

Lerxt

P400

P400

Gold

Gold

Pratt

Pratt

Velvia

Velvia

P400

P400

Velvia

Velvia

Lerxt

Lerxt

Velvia

Velvia

Gold

Gold

P400

P400

Pratt

Pratt

Lerxt

Lerxt

P400

P400

Lerxt

Lerxt

How to Install Canon Recipes

  1. Download and install EOS Utility.

  2. Connect the camera to your computer via a USB cable. Make sure it is in Photo mode, not video.

  3. Open EOS Utility then turn on your camera

  4. In EOS Utility navigate to Camera Settings > Picture Style > Register User Define Style.

  5. Select an empty slot (or a slot you want to overwrite) > click the folder icon > navigate to the extracted folder of recipes and select a recipe for that slot > select “OK”

  6. Go Shoot! (don’t forget to select a recipe when shooting)

If you’re a visual learner, check out Thomas’s video on how to install Canon recipes to your camera.

FAQ

  • I cannot find a definitive list but these styles should work on any modern Canon DSLR or Mirrorless camera released since the Canon 5D (2008)

    Two ways to double check: google it first or open up your cameras picture styles menu and make sure it has User Def. 1-3 slots. If it does, these should work.

    Absolute worst case scenario if they don’t work, just let me know and I’ll refund you.

  • Unfortunately, no. Unlike both Fujifilm and Nikon - the only way to get these on the camera is through EOS Utility to my knowledge.

  • No but also yes. These are meant to be used for shooting jpeg images.

    If you shoot in raw, when previewing on your camera you will see these recipes applied. However once you take the image and load it into something like Lightroom, the recipe will be lost.

    This might be useful if you’d like to see how an image might look with a style applied out in the field but you still plan on editing later.

    If you want the flexibility to edit later, I would suggest shooting raw+jpeg. This will apply the recipe to the jpeg and still give you the raw file in case you wanted to edit.

    Also you CAN apply recipes to raw images inside Canon’s Digital Picture profile software.

  • The only requirement is you must shoot in the sRGB color space.

    In my experience this is the default on Canon cameras and you likely already are.

  • Yes but only if you install them while in video mode within EOS Utility.

    These do not work while shooting LOG or RAW video either.

  • Yes absolutely, just be aware you’ll be editing JPEG images that also now have a “look” baked into them. Thus I’d suggest only minor tweaks.

    That said, JPEGs have a lot more flexibility than you’d expect!