Camp Snap Pro - Xenon-flash

CampSnapPhoto did a very good thing, adding a real flash to the Camp Snap Pro. This features allows for "slaves" being triggered enabling elaborate lighting setups. Very very cool in particular since the CS-Pro flash has 2 different settings.
However, there is a (solvable) problem. The flash of the CS-Pro does not produce a homogeneous field of light, something I tested flashing a white ceiling. The photo displayed stripes across the image. A strip of Scotch Magic Tape over the flash unit improved the distribution to some extent; not perfect, good enough however.

My thanks to the CampSnapPhoto-folks for adding the Xenon-flash. Setting up a scene with slaves will erase the problem with the in-homogeneous light-field. Mind you, I already sold photographs taken with the Camp Snap 105. I am pretty sure that I can create professional scenes with the Camp Snap Pro and a decent setup of inexpensive slave speed-lights and cheap light modulators / reflectors.

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).