Make your own recipe

Answer a handful of questions - the look you're after, the light it'll live in, how the tones should sit - and watch the settings card fill in as you go. Every answer maps to measured Image Control behavior and published Ricoh practice, not vibes. At the end the recipe is yours: name it, download the card, dial it in.

The builder is in beta - light and taste vary, so treat every result as a strong starting point and expect to nudge a dial or two.

Prove it before you trust it

• 01Shoot RAW+ while you test. The GR develops RAWs in-camera, so you can push one identical frame through variations of your recipe and compare - no computer involved.
• 02Change one dial at a time and re-look. When Clarity or D-Range pushes the effective contrast up, lower the contrast dials instead of accepting the drift.
• 03Shoot your keeper scene at -1, 0 and +1 exposure compensation. If the look only survives at one exposure, the look was the exposure - not the recipe.