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AI reference frame for the Nikon recipe Burnt Celluloid Dusk AI reference frame Nikon · 2026-10-24

Burnt Celluloid Dusk

Flat
Picture Control
Flat
White balance
5600K
WB shift
A4, M1
Sharpening
+0.75
Mid-range sharpening
-1.00
Clarity
-1.50
Contrast
-1.75
Saturation
-1.25
Brightness
+0.25
Hue
+0.75
Active D-Lighting
Low
Exposure comp.
+0.3
ISO
400–1600

Bodies Z9, Z8, Z6 III, Z f, Z7 II, Z6 II, Z5 II, Z5 IIC, Z50 II, Z fc, Z30, Z50, Z5, Z7, Z6

This image is an AI reference frame: Luma generates it alongside the recipe to show the mood being aimed at. No photograph here was taken with these settings, and it is not a sample of what your camera will produce. The settings values are the real thing.

About this recipe

A cinematic recipe that evokes the look of warm, slightly overexposed 35mm film stock from the 1970s — the kind seen in road movies and slow-burn thrillers shot on location in autumn. The muted but amber-tinged palette, lifted shadows, compressed highlights, and restrained saturation combine to give footage-like stillness to any scene: empty highways flanked by turning trees, small-town diners at dusk, or figures silhouetted against a last-light sky. Flat Picture Control provides the wide tonal latitude needed to simulate film's gentle roll-off, while a warm colour temperature and deliberate amber white-balance shift lock in the season's signature glow. Use at golden hour or in the last thirty minutes before blue hour for maximum impact.

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