Presets for Film Shooters and Editorial Work

The photographer

Robbie Sumantri

I'm Robbie Sumantri. Street and portrait photographer based in Jakarta, shooting for over fifteen years. My work runs across two systems constantly. Digital: Leica M11, Sony A7V. Film: Leica M-A, Mamiya RZ67, Nikon FM2. The gap between how those files look out of camera is significant, and I've spent years trying to close it. Not by running a generic film filter, but by understanding exactly how my own scans look and building an edit that pulls digital files into that same space. These presets came directly out of that process. I wasn't building products to sell. I was solving a problem I had in my own work, and eventually the solution was solid enough to share. I document all of this on YouTube and Instagram as Vault 14 Studios -- the gear, the film stocks, the color decisions, and what it looks like to shoot seriously in a city like Jakarta. If you want to understand how I think about editing before you buy anything, start there. Shinwa is my personal grade. Teal shadows, warm highlights, crushed blacks. I've been editing my own work this way for years. It's built around how Jakarta actually looks -- the heat, the light, the atmosphere of this city. Not an aesthetic borrowed from somewhere else. Darkroom is a film simulation system built for hybrid shooters. Nine Kodak stocks, developed from actual scan study rather than visual approximation. The full modifier system handles the variables that make scans look different from each other -- the things a standard film preset ignores. If you shoot both digital and film and you want them to live in the same world, this is what I built for that.