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What it is
Recipe Lab is a small app that runs on the camera itself — on Sony cameras that support PlayMemories Camera Apps, such
as the A6000, A6300, A6500 and A7 II (see Compatibility). It comes with 76 colour recipes that
recreate the looks of other cameras — Fuji film simulations, Ricoh GR image controls, Leica, Hasselblad, Canon and
Nikon colour, Sony's newer Creative Looks — and of classic film stocks from Kodak, Fuji, Cinestill, Agfa and Ilford.
You can also make your own, and share them.
Recipe Lab has a phone app too. Recipe Lab Studio develops your RAWs on iPhone,
iPad and Android with these same looks, plus the film grain and mist a camera cannot do. The camera sends it photos
and recipes over Wi-Fi (Transfer to phone), so a look you made on the camera is on the phone,
and a look you made on the phone is on the camera. The camera app stays what it is: the looks, stored in the camera.
You turn the wheel, watch the live image change, press a button. From then on the camera shoots that way in every
mode, photo and video, with the app closed. Turn it off and on, it is still there.
Honest note. The A6000 has no Picture Profile menu and cannot store tone curves. Every recipe is built only from
what this camera can keep: Creative Style, saturation, contrast, sharpness, white balance, exposure bias, Picture
Effect and one hidden colour setting Sony never exposed. So these are approximations of a look, not copies of another brand's colour science.
The recipes
| brand | recipes |
|---|
| Sony | Factory (the camera's own look), PT, NT, VV, VV2, FL, IN, SH |
| Fuji simulations | Provia, Velvia, Astia, Classic Chrome, Classic Negative, Nostalgic Neg, Reala Ace, Pro Neg Std / Hi, Eterna, Eterna Bleach Bypass, Acros, Acros +Ye / +R / +G, Sepia |
| Fuji film | Pro 400H, Fortia 50, Superia 400, C200, Natura 1600 |
| Kodak | Portra 160 / 400 / 800, Gold 200, Ultra Max 400, Color Plus 200, Ektar 100, Ektachrome E100, Kodachrome 64, Vision3 500T, Vision 200T (Asteroid City), Tri-X 400, Tri-X 1600 (pushed), T-Max |
| Cine | Cinestill 50D, Cinestill 800T, Classic Cinema, Rec709 Video |
| Ricoh GR | Positive Film, Negative Film, Bleach Bypass, Retro, Cross Process, Hi-Contrast B&W, Hard Monotone, Soft Monotone |
| Leica | Contemporary, Classic, Eternal, Monochrom |
| Hasselblad | HNCS Natural |
| Canon / Nikon | Canon Standard / Portrait / Faithful, Nikon Flat / Vivid |
| Panasonic / Olympus | L.Monochrome D, L.ClassicNeo, Pop Art, Pale & Light |
| Other stocks | Agfa Vista 200, Agfa Ultra 100, Polaroid / Instax |
| Ilford | HP5, FP4, Delta 100, Delta 3200, Pan F 50 |
See every recipe on the same subject → — 77 frames, one scene, one
exposure, straight out of the camera.
Recipes marked JPEG only in the app (Acros +R, Tri-X 1600, GR Retro, GR Hi-Contrast B&W, Sony SH, Polaroid) are
built on a Picture Effect because, against the reference frames, its tone
curve gets closer than Creative Style can; everything else stays Creative Style on purpose.
Not included, because the camera simply cannot do them: log profiles (S-Log, V-Log, Blackmagic Film, Cinelike D) and
tinted black & white (selenium, cyanotype). Sony's camcorder Cinematone gamma exists in the firmware but the A6000's
camera layer neither lists nor accepts it, so that door is closed too.
Compatibility
Recipe Lab has no model check in it, and every Sony body that runs PlayMemories apps has the same settings store — so
it should install and work beyond the A6000.
The catch: the setting IDs were found on an A6000 and may sit elsewhere on another body, so a recipe could land in the
wrong place. A camera gets a ✅ only once someone has stored a recipe on it and power-cycled the camera.
Tried one? File a
compatibility report.
Failures are as useful as successes.
Cameras that run PlayMemories apps
✅ someone has run it on that body · ❔ app-capable, nobody has reported back yet · ❌ reported not to take the app
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