New and updated versions of the latest Marvels Cine picture styles for Canon DSLR cameras

UPDATE april 2011: please follow the link “marvels cine for hdslr” at the top of this blog for more information and updated profile.

UPDATE  JAN 8 2011: New version available from this post!
After getting hands-on experience and feedback from users of the new Marvels Picture profiles (2.3 and Panalog) posted below, i am currently pushing forward (in our planning) the development of the new and final Marvels Cine Flat profile “3.1”.  I, as a filmmaker with a specific taste for the elusive “film look”, am not entirely satisfied with the s-curve that has been provided by Bart Keimen for the recent profiles. I am currently test shooting with an all new picture profile that is much more advanced than any other profile and with an s-curve that is not only mathematically correct, but also mimics the s-curve of film stock AND offers control over it’s “flatness”. The profiles will no longer be made with the Canon Picture Profile Editor, but with an in-house developed application; it’s crude and not sexy, but can calculate curves based on mathematical functions instead of user/mouse input. The mathematical functions have been provided by Jorg Escher of Fraunhofer and we’ll work together next week to finalize the application and provide one or more profiles to work with. So, for now, i regard the “2.3” picture profiles as betas for  you all to experiment with.

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Hello all.

We are happy to announce the release of two additional versions of our latest “Marvels Cine 2.1 Panalog” picture style. And two all new Flat picture style files; all for your Canon D-range (pun not intended) DSLR cameras.

Two additional profile versions have been made from the latest v.2.3 “Panalog” style, addressing style settings only – for your convenience – and two are new profiles based on the latest “Panalog” version, but with the color correction disabled, offering only the slight s-curve to “flatten” the picture without color changess.

As from now, i will configure two versions per existing Marvels style, one for low contrast situations and one for high contrast situations. These are using the same s-Curve, but with different Contrast settings, that you can alter yourself to taste.

Here is the list of all available Marvels Cine Style picture profiles for the Canon cameras. .pf2 and zip files provided, as well as a one-file download of all styles.
Please use this post as the official and final download page for all Marvels Picture Styles.

• new: Marvels LOWc 2.3
  Slight “best of both worlds” s-Curve for useful flattening of the picture, without introducing flattening artifacts such as “plastic faces” and other 8-bit color gamma defects. Optimized for low contrast shooting situations (e.g. indoors, night).
  Classification: No color correction. Light flattening.
  Version 2.3 of december 5 2010, by Martin Beek and Bart Keimen, Marvels Film.
  Permanent download link: .pf2 file zip file
  
  
• new: Marvels HIc 2.3
  Slight “best of both worlds” s-Curve for useful flattening of the picture, without introducing flattening artifacts such as “plastic faces” and other 8-bit color gamma defects. Optimized for high contrast shooting situations (e.g. outdoors, film lighting).
  Classification: No color correction. Moderate flattening.
  Version 2.3 of december 5 2010, by Martin Beek and Bart Keimen, Marvels Film.
  Permanent download link: .pf2 file zip file
  

• new: Marvels Panalog LOWc 2.3
  Slight “best of both worlds” s-Curve for useful flattening of the picture, with color correction based on a mapping of the Panavision Genesis Panalog Style, using a Panavision Genesis camera, a macBeth color card and a Canon 7D. Optimized for low contrast shooting situations (e.g. indoors, night).
  Classification: Advanced color correction. Light flattening. Panavision Genesis simulation.
  Version 2.3 of november 28 2010, by Martin Beek and Bart Keimen, Marvels Film.
  Permanent download link: .pf2 file zip file
  
  
• new: Marvels Panalog HIc 2.3
  Slight “best of both worlds” s-Curve for useful flattening of the picture, with color correction based on a mapping of the Panavision Genesis Panalog Style, using a Panavision Genesis camera, a macBeth color card and a Canon 7D. Optimized for high contrast shooting situations (e.g. outdoors, film lighting).
  Classification: Advanced color correction. Moderate flattening. Panavision Genesis simulation.
  Version 2.3 of november 28 2010, by Martin Beek and Bart Keimen, Marvels Film.
  Permanent download link: .pf2 file zip file
• Marvels Cine Flat Picture Style v.1.2 (“Classic”)
  The renowned and widely used (+23.000 downloads) Marvels Cine flat picture style.
  Featured in many DSLR indie movies, music videos and even feature films.
  The above profiles are NOT a replacement for this extra-flat cinestyle s-Curve profile – this profile is still actual, being used and updated. Should be manually adjusted for low/high contrast situations using the camera profile’s “Contrast” setting. Dial contrast completely down for high contrast and to “-2” or “-3” for low contrast shooting situations.
  Classification: No color correction. Very flat.
  Version 1.2 of december 5 2010, by Martin Beek
  Permanent download link: .pf2 file zip file
• All-in-one up-to-date archive (zip) of all Marvels Cine Picture Styles
  Permanent download link: zip file

Please use the links above to download Marvels picture styles. Webmasters/bloggers: please update your file links.

Feel free to distribute!

Cheers!