Day Cine 400
Film · ISO 400 · daylightDay Cine is a daylight cinema negative, the stock a film crew loads for exteriors in the sun. It gives your picture soft, wide-latitude color, a touch of grain and a gentle glow around the brightest highlights.
The sample with the Bleach Bypass preset. Drag to compare, or press Play with it to tune it live. Open as a shared look
What it's like
Picture a feature shot outdoors on film. Skies hold their detail, skin stays easy, the shadows lean a little cool and the highlights a little warm. Cinema negative takes a lot of light before it gives up, so nothing snaps to white. Shot without its backing layer, the sun on chrome or water picks up a soft red halo. Day Cine is that stock, the daytime partner to Night Cine.
When to reach for it
- Daylight footage that should feel like a film, not a phone.
- Brand and lifestyle work where skin and skies matter more than drama.
- A base for lab looks. Bleach bypass gives you the hard, silvery cinema finish.
Controls
20 controls in 9 sections, in the order Tune shows them.
Exposure
- FaderExposure
−3.0 EV to +3.0 EV · rests at 0 EV
Exposure in stops, before the lab. Over goes soft and pastel, under goes muddy and grainy.
Lab
- FaderPush / pull
Pull 1.0 to Push +3.0 · rests at Box speed
Push develops longer for more contrast, crushed blacks and bigger grain. Pull goes softer and lifted, with finer grain.
- SelectLab
StandardCrispSoftPrintFlat
Who printed it. Crisp is a punchy scan with cool shadows. Soft is gentle with peachy skin. Print is cinema print stock with deep blacks. Flat is low contrast, for grading later.
Format
- SelectFormat
Half frame35mm120Cine 35
The size of the negative, which sets the grain. Half frame is coarsest, 120 is finest.
- KnobGate weave
0 to 100 · rests at 0
The frame drifts in the gate, like a movie camera. It steps at 24 frames a second and loops clean.
Halation
- Hero knobHalation
0 to 100 · rests at 35
The hero. The red glow around the brightest highlights. It warms to orange where the light is strongest, and the light itself stays clean.
- KnobSpread
0 to 100 · rests at 40
How far the glow reaches.
- KnobThreshold
0 to 100 · rests at 60
How bright a highlight has to be to glow. Higher keeps it to the hottest spots.
- KnobRolloff
0 to 100 · rests at 45
How the print eases into white. Higher lifts the midtones and rounds off the highlights.
Color
- FaderBalance
-100 to +100 · rests at 0
The color balance. Up is warmer, down is cooler.
- KnobFade
0 to 100 · rests at 10
Lifts the blacks to a cool gray and dims the whites, like an old print.
Grain
- KnobGrain
0 to 100 · rests at 40
How much grain. It sits in the midtones and shadows and thins out in the highlights.
- KnobGrain size
0 to 100 · rests at 35
How big the grain is.
Light
- SelectLight source
MatchedTungstenFluorescentSodiumMixed
The light the scene was shot under, as the film sees it. Tungsten goes orange, Fluorescent goes green, Sodium drains the color to a deep orange, Mixed puts green in the shadows and warmth in the highlights.
Darkroom
- KnobBleach bypass
0 to 100 · rests at 0
Skips the bleach and leaves the silver in. Color drains, contrast climbs.
- KnobExpired
0 to 100 · rests at 0
Old stock. The blacks fog, the contrast flattens and the color drifts, with fresh noise on every frame.
- SelectDrift
MagentaCyanGreen
Which way the expired stock drifts. Magenta, Cyan or Green.
Scan
- SelectScanner
LabFlatbedDrum
How the film was scanned. Lab is straight. Flatbed is soft, a little lifted and cool. Drum is crisp.
- KnobScan sharpen
0 to 100 · rests at 0
Scanner sharpening. A little adds bite, a lot leaves bright edges on every line.
- KnobDust
0 to 100 · rests at 0
White specks on the scan, the dust on a negative. Past halfway a hair lands too.
Presets
7 presets. Each one opens in the studio as a shared look. Add it on top of your picture, or save it to My looks.
Bleach BypassSilver left in: color drops, contrast climbs.02
Found RollExpired years ago: fogged blacks, magenta drift, dust.03
Office LightShot under fluorescent tubes: the green cast film sees.04
Sodium StreetOrange street lamps: color nearly gone, glow around the lights.05
Flatbed ScanHome scanner: soft, a little lifted, a speck or two.06
Drum ScanCrisp drum scan with scanner sharpening.07
Expired CyanOld stock drifting cyan.