I love Nikon's Picture Controls. They're functionally equivalent to r/ricohGR and r/fujifilm recipes. Unfortunately, there's not enough adoption from the community, which might be because it's hard to try them out quickly.
(Also because Nikon barely markets the feature, and their official creators only have one sample picture per recipe. That makes it difficult to know whether you like the recipe or just the picture).
To get the picture controls, you need to transfer them to your camera - 9 at a time. With 110 official recipes, that just takes too long. Nikon does not publish the direct .NP3 file for us to download. So I made a repo with them all included!
The idea is, you can load 100s of recipes at a time into NX studio, and then cycle through the recipes on your existing photos really quickly. This lets you try the recipes on existing photos you like, and also lets you try many at a time very quickly.
What's in it:
- 110 Nikon Creator recipes: the full official set from Nikon's global creator program (GoldenHourGlow, CineM, DGFilmLook, the full CineBias series, vintage film looks, B&W emulations, and a lot more)
- 30 Nikon Color Grading presets: the official Bleach Bypass, Color Mode, and Negative series
- 2 NikonPC classics: Kodachrome and Kodak T-Max 400
- 44 third-party recipes from Alex Armitage, Filmstill, Scott Tucker, and Stephen Morais — mostly analog film stock emulations (Portra, Ektar, Velvia, Provia, Ilford, etc.)
How I Downloaded The Recipes
- Connect your Expeed 7 camera to Nikon Imaging Cloud
- Browse and save recipes - add favorites to Saved Recipes, then send up to 9 at a time to your camera.
- Shoot one RAW photo with each newly loaded Picture Control active.
- In NX Studio, open each photo and go to Basic Edit Palettes → Picture Control → [recipe name] → Add to Custom Picture Controls and save.
- Export the custom picture control to a file.
As you can see, this quite a manual process. That is why I went through all the profiles so that others may simply download their favorite profile with ease.
All .NP3 and .NCP files, are also ready to drop on an SD card and load straight into your camera.
Repo: https://github.com/shouryan01/Nikon-Recipes
If anyone has recipes I'm missing (especially recipes from NikonPC), or want to add your own, feel free to open a PR!