Film Profiles are heart and soul of Dehancer. Each film is accurately sampled with all of its characteristics. If you are ready to bet on years of film experience – then you can simply scroll and try film profiles in the list until you get the most interesting or desired results.

All films behave differently depending on how much light they received during exposure. In Dehancer film exposure is implemented with the Push/Pull (Ev) parameter. In fact there are 3 different film exposures sampled to build each film profile in Dehancer.

As a creative tool Push/Pull allows you to vary color-contrast look of a scene within a selected film profile. Also, Push/Pull can be a good helper in clipping control, since contrast greatly depends on film exposure. With negative films it affects overall color and contrast. With positive films Push/Pull allows to set the desired slide exposure, opening blocked shadows or protecting blown-out highlights.

When creating film profiles, we illuminate the color target using the light source with the color temperature for which a particular film is intended by the manufacturer. Thus, Daylight films are shot under the reference light source with a temperature of about 5300K, while Tungsten emulsions require 3200K incandescent bulbs. Therefore, we get the neutral color reproduction with minimal deviations in white balance at the shooting stage.

When printing the negative optically, we additionally correct the white balance using color filters in the enlarger, bringing the neutrals to the reference value with great accuracy.

This means that technically any film profile is designed for source material with neutral white balance.

Remember that you can use the Temperature Comp. and Tint Comp. settings in the Input section to additionally compensate for the source white balance.

💡 We optically print negative B&W films on the famous Slavich Bromportrait paper known for its noble warm tone. If you need a pure black and white look, you may set the Saturation = 0 in the Print section at any time. Also you can try CMY Color Head and Print Toning parameters to adjust tint and split-toning at your taste.

💡 There is no dedicated Opacity control for Film Profile by technical reasons but mostly by design – one cannot shoot on film ‘halfway’. However you can apply two Dehancer nodes – first with the Input and Film Profile enabled, second with Expand, Print, Grain, and other FX. It’s rather flexible as you can set the desired ‘film opacity’ with Total Impact slider, available in common plugin controls