JOEL FAMULARO – Phantom LUTs for Sony A7s3 & FX6 – 2023 Updated

Product feature:

The A7s3, Fx3 and Fx6 are game-changing cameras, with incredible features, image quality and lowlight capability all in a super compact form factor.

The Sony colour science has really come a long way but I still felt there was room for improvement.

To me, the gold standard for colour science is still to be found in the ARRI Digital Camera family, and so using my own ARRI Amira as a benchmark, I developed a LUT that reverse engineers the colour science of the Alexa709 LUT, which I’ve always found to look filmic and natural, straight out of camera; The result is my ‘Phantom Neutral LUT’.

Using this ARRI Emulation as a base, I further developed 9 additional creative LUTs divided into two LUT Packages centred around two themes:

• The ‘ARRI Look’ LUT pack was developed alongside my ARRI Amira to first and foremost provide a way to emulate the Alexa709 look with the ‘Neutral LUT’. Included with Alexa709 Emulation LUT are four look LUTs to act as creative variations and alternatives for further colour grading options. The Fx6 sensor is very similar to the A7s3 and Fx6 specific versions are included with the A7s3 LUTs as a package deal.
• The ‘Film Look’ LUT Pack contains 6 LUTs inspired by real film stocks designed to give your S-LOG Footage the Film Look. The emulations are based on my own research and subjective impressions of the film stocks listed.

9/2023 UPDATE:

– I’ve included 65x versions for the first time to go along with the standard 33x versions (have a read of the new readme if you don’t know what a 65x versions is).

– I’ve addressed a small issue with skintones where they were sometimes too red when underexposed. It’s a subtle fix but it helps keep skintones more neutral and natural throughout the exposure range.

– Updated readme that has some new sections, most notably a small table that officially recommend which LUT goes with which new camera including the A6700, A7iv, Fx30 and more.

– The update is for all LUTs, the ARRI and Film Look Packs.