Camp Snap Pro - a true BW camera now

Life kept me busy/lazy for a while. Finally, my return to the Camp Snap Pro. I sent the company a message about my desire to have the LUT of the CS-105 in the CS-PRO. I guess the market for this kind of weird stuff is pretty small, hence, I have not heard back after the first confirmation, also, their filter-designer-tool seems to create files as before. So, well, no real weird stuff possible as with the 105. (bummer!)

However, now CampSnapPhoto explains how to assign filters to all positions of the mode-dial:

Filters are case-sensitive and must be lowercase.

std.flt, vtg1.flt, vtg2.flt, or bw.flt

(cf https://www.campsnapphoto.com/pages/filters%20)

So, it is what we got. However, here comes the plan, look at your B&W-photo text books on how to use color filters with B&W film. Here is a "random" page, I just picked up by a search engine: https://thedarkroom.com/color-filters-with-bw-film/

With CampSnapPhoto's filter creation page, we can of course design our own filter definitions for the CS-Pro.

My advice is to play with R, G, B first, then with Hue. Now reduce the Saturation to 0 and fine adjust with Brightness, Contrast and Hue.

Is it as good a manipulating the RGB-LUT of the CS-105? Of course it is not. However, once you have fine tuned your filter-files, you can set a specific filter to a specific position of the selector, making the camera a BW-film with 4 filters simulation.

My choice is to have a general purpose black and white setting on the STD position. VTG1 has a soft portrait setting (for women), VTG2 a hard portrait setting (elderly men). The BW position is occupied by a very hard contrast setting having a red filter (landscapes, skylines, dramatic skies, etc).

UPDATE:

While the standard setting can be modified, as shown above, it might be best to just leave this one alone, so there will be a color option at the end. A photo taken with this setting can always be de-saturated. 

My present settings are equivalent to a green and orange and a blue filter.

1. vtg1.flt:
   lum:19
   contrast:0
   rgain:-63
   ggain:100
   bgain:-82
   hue:0
   sat:-100
   
   
2. vtg2.flt:
   lum:29
   contrast:0
   rgain:100
   ggain:-90
   bgain:-92
   hue:0
   sat:-100
   


3. bw.flt:
   lum:150
   contrast:0
   rgain:-90
   ggain:-74
   bgain:100
   hue:0
   sat:-100

The envisaged use of the filters are as follows:

1. low contrast landscapes, smooth portraits - smooths out irregularities in skin
2. dramatic landscapes and cityscapes - increases dynamics in the sky
3. character portraits - emphasizes skin irregularities