EOS R7 JPG Picture Profiles / Recipes?

[justadude]

A friend of mine was recently gifted a Canon R7 camera by her fiancé, to replace her old and tired Fujifilm camera.  She has asked for some help from me on understanding a lot of the (new to her) menu since she knows I shoot Canon.  I've been able to help her a lot on the different settings, but in one area I am looking for some suggestions here from the group.

Let me start here...

She loved the Fujifilm recipes, and was a little disappointed that Canon does not have these.  I need to add that she does not love editing at all.  I offered to teach her, but she said editing would take away from her love of photography - make it feel like a chore.  She is asking me how she can learn to set up (adjust?) just a few JPEG picture profiles to look like some of the recipes she had before.  Some of her favorites looked like film.

I know that Canon does NOT have the same custom options like Fujifilm does, and I explained that to her, so no need to tell me that.  However a quick Google search gave me a billion (ok, only a million) options on how to go about setting a few of these up to kind of resemble Fujifilm recipes.  I have never attempted anything like this, simply because I like editing RAW files.  So... Instead of me sifting through a million (ok, in reality, only 100,000) videos and articles... has anyone here ever had any luck with setting up a few film like JPEG profiles on their Canon camera?  If so, can you point me towards links of ones that actually look good (instead of the 99,990 that look mediocre)?

And just in case you are think of suggesting this, she does not want to trade in the R7 for a newer Fujifilm.  She said her fiancé would be disappointed, and she really does love the camera and has been excited to learn more about it.

[justadude]

Oh, I find it very easy to let DPP4 go. I kick and scream each time I have to use it, which fortunately is only for some of my infrared photography, and it's only for RAW color correction that LR or PS is having trouble with on those wavelengths. You would think with Canon's advance technology in the camera market that they could hire someone to take that antiquated piece of software, modernize it (it feels like something from 1998 - lol), and more than anything, fix the sluggishness of it. 😂  I can laugh at it, because it's used for less than 1% of my editing.

Personally, I like the editing of RAW files. While I am good at getting things 95% (or thereabouts) right in camera, there is always adjustments that either I want to do, or that a business would like with their particular branding style, or as simple as making minor tweaks because I think a print will sell better. 

As for how things settled out... She did a search and found the picture styles pack that John suggested in the comments above in his screenshot, then did some minor tweaks to each one to match her taste. Last I heard, which was about two months later, she was happy with the results.

[jrhoffman75]

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@justadude wrote:

She went with one of the picture styles packs that John suggested, did some minor tweaks, and is happy with them. Not sure why learning a new system would matter with picture styles. It's kind of like any of my other brand digital cameras... RAW files are a bit different to edit on the very first upload into LR or PS, but after an hour of playing around, it's just as easy as the other systems. I'm guessing it was just as easy for her when she mentioned she did a few minor tweaks and was happy. You probably missed the part where I mentioned she wants straight out of the camera... so no DPP4 for her. Her style is the jpeg on the card is the finished product, and she's good at it, so why change?

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For many years folks shot with slide film. Chose the emulsion that fit what they were shooting. SOOC. Good enough for NatGeo.

The various Picture Styles attempt to emulate analog emulsions - some good and some not so good.

[justadude]

For many years folks shot with slide film. Chose the emulsion that fit what they were shooting. SOOC. Good enough for NatGeo.

The various Picture Styles attempt to emulate analog emulsions - some good and some not so good.

I was heavily into slide film in the late 70's and through the 80's. I still shoot the occasional roll of Ektachrome (but more often than not, I shoot negative film). Personally, I'm not a fan of picture styles that try to look like film. I guess to my eyes they never look quite right... but for the people that like the picture styles, there are plenty of nice choices.