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About Cinea

Built from real film.

A small studio in Amsterdam that measures real film and rebuilds it for your camera.

Founded
2024, Amsterdam
Lab
Fotolab Amsterdam
Scanner
Noritsu
Profiles built in
Lumariver
Stocks
8, each in three exposures, with 9 and 10 on the way

The idea

Measure the colour of real film. Rebuild it on your sensor.

Read straight off developed film, so skin, sky and shadow land where they did. A preset can only guess.

Grain and halation are our closest approximation. Nothing digital is a perfect copy of analog.

The darkroom

What a profile does

It changes how the RAW is read. Your edit goes on top.

  1. 01Your RAWThe data from your sensor, before any colour decisions.
  2. 02Cinea profileLoads like Adobe Color or Camera Faithful, and maps the sensor onto the film’s measured colour.
  3. 03Your editExposure, white balance, crops: all your sliders, still at zero and free to use.

A preset

Basic panel

  • Exposure+12
  • Contrast+38
  • Highlights-46
  • Shadows+30
  • Temperature+22
  • Tint-14
  • Vibrance+18
  • Saturation-20

Paints over Adobe’s colour by moving your sliders. Change the light, and it falls apart.

A Cinea profile

Basic panel

  • Exposure0
  • Contrast0
  • Highlights0
  • Shadows0
  • Temperature0
  • Tint0
  • Vibrance0
  • Saturation0

Replaces how the RAW is read. The colour comes from the film. Your sliders stay at zero.

The process

How a Cinea profile is made.

A measurement first, a look second.

Holding a ColorChecker Digital SG chart

It starts with a chart

140 colour patches, shot twice.

Every stock is measured against a chart of 140 known colours, from skin tones to pure greys.

We shoot it on film and on digital in the same light. The difference, patch by patch, is what the profile rebuilds.

140
patches per chart
27
rolls shot
20
frames to refine each stock

Step by step

Step 01

Shoot the roll

Every stock is shot on real 35mm rolls.

Step 02

Develop and scan

Developed and scanned on a Noritsu. That scan is the reference.

A 140 patch colour chart as a digital RAW, and below it through the Cinea Portra 400 profile

Step 03

Measure against a chart

140 colour patches, shot on film and digital in the same light. The difference becomes the profile.

The same beach scene on Ultramax 400 film, and below it as a digital RAW with Cinea Ultramax

Step 04

Refine by hand

Checked against twenty more frames until skin, sky and shadow match.

The result: 24 film profiles, ready in your editor.

Eight stocks in three exposures, for Lightroom and Capture One. €60 once.

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The stocks

Eight films, each with its own character.

Portra 400ISO400

Warm portrait film.

Amsterdam, shot on a Sony A7 III with Cinea Portra 400Amsterdam, shot on a Sony A7R IV with Cinea Portra 400São Paulo, shot on a Sony A7 III with Cinea Portra 400Dolomites, Italy, shot on a Canon R5 with Cinea Portra 400
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Gold 200ISO200

Saturated daylight film.

Essaouira, shot on a Canon G7X II with Cinea Gold 200Bretagne, shot on a Panasonic Lumix DMC FS16 with Cinea Gold 200Bangkok airport, shot on a Canon G7X II with Cinea Gold 200Paris, shot on a Ricoh GR IV with Cinea Gold 200
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Ultramax 400ISO400

Vivid everyday film.

Italië, Como, shot on a Fuji X100VI with Cinea Ultramax 400Thessaloniki, shot on a Canon 500D with Cinea Ultramax 400Cartagena, shot on a Fujifilm XF10 with Cinea Ultramax 400Italië, Como, shot on a Fuji X100VI with Cinea Ultramax 400
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Ektachrome 100ISO100

Crisp slide film.

Thailand, shot on a Sony A7 III with Cinea Ektachrome 100Bretagne, shot on a Panasonic Lumix DMC FS16 with Cinea Ektachrome 100Amsterdam, shot on a Sony A7 III with Cinea Ektachrome 100Taghazout, shot on a Canon Rebel XTi with Cinea Ektachrome 100
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Ektar 100ISO100

Sharp, vivid colour film.

Rincon Beach, shot on a Sony A7 III with Cinea Ektar 100Amsterdam, shot on a Sony A7R IV with Cinea Ektar 100Rincon Beach, shot on a Sony A7 III with Cinea Ektar 100Q.Zandvliet, Italië, shot on a Fuji X100VI with Cinea Ektar 100
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Vision3 5207ISO250

Daylight cinema film.

Marrakech, shot on a Canon Rebel XTi with Cinea Vision3 5207Paris, shot on a Canon Rebel XTi with Cinea Vision3 5207M. Deuxtrois, Paris, shot on a Fuji X Pro3 with Cinea Vision3 5207Duivendrecht, shot on a Canon R5 with Cinea Vision3 5207
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Cinestill 800TISO800

Tungsten cinema film.

Paris, shot on a Canon Rebel XTi with Cinea Cinestill 800TParis, shot on a Panasonic Lumix DMC FS16 with Cinea Cinestill 800TC. Wagener, Berlin, shot on a Unknown with Cinea Cinestill 800TT. De Boer, Tokyo, shot on a Ricoh GR IV with Cinea Cinestill 800T
See all Cinestill 800T photos →
HP5 400ISO400

Classic black and white.

Utrecht, shot on a Sony A7 IV with Cinea HP5 400Paris, shot on a Ricoh GR IV with Cinea HP5 400K. huwae, Malukku, shot on a Fuji XT2 with Cinea HP5 400
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The Cinea founders

Why we built this

Every profile pack we tried got Portra wrong.

Crushed shadows, magenta skin. So Marijn shot 27 rolls, had them scanned, and matched every digital file to the scans by eye.

@marijnchaouch@cineaprofilescineaworks@gmail.com

Missing a stock? Email us. The most requested ones get made first.

★★★★★4.9, used by 491 photographers

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  • “I do a lot of grading for Assouline publishers and these profiles are a great way to work.”
    Tom Steventon, Colour grader
  • “The profiles are extraordinarily good. I shoot on my iPhone 17 Pro Max … they work brilliantly on Raw, Pro Raw and Apple portrait mode.”
    candistandphoto, Shoots on iPhone
  • “Everything works just fine. Love the colour of the profiles, nice work!”
    Jorik Den Braber, Verified buyer

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