So when RNI emailed me, my initial response was fairly negative (there’s a pun for you!). The point of mentioning this is to highlight that I’m not one to just take things from companies on a whim because the offer is there. These things are so far outside of my remit, yet they seemingly wanted to shower me with them. One company literally hounded me about trying their photo realistic photo backdrops. I get contacted by some pretty unusual companies, at least unusual for a blog that’s largely about film cameras. Does it work? Well, RNI make the somewhat audacious claim that it makes a “film simulator more convincing than actual film”! Whilst I shall definitely come back to that claim a little later, first I feel it appropriate to touch on how I’ve come to be experimenting with these simulators in the first place. In case you’ve lived under an analogue rock for the last few years, the idea behind these types of simulators is that they take the standard output from a digital camera and attempt to make it look like film.

RNI or Really Nice Images are responsible for a series of film simulators for Lightroom, Photoshop and within some sort of app. Do you know which is which? How hard is it to tell? I shall tell you which is which later in the post… Credit Dustin Veitch Some of them are film (obviously digitised), and some of them are digital, some of which have been made to look like film. What do you think of the 6 images below? Are they film or digital.

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