Black and white · 2016

ACROS+G (green filter)

The portrait filter, and the one for gardens.

Short answer

ACROS+G applies a digital green filter. Foliage lightens so leaves keep detail instead of going black, and skin tones render more evenly with fewer blotches. It is the best ACROS variant for portraits and gardens.

Based on: Neopan 100 Acros with a green filter
Type: Black and white
Introduced: 2016
Cameras with this simulation: 32

Green was the least fashionable filter on black and white film and the most useful one for people. It evens out the reds in skin, which in monochrome are what turn a face patchy, and it rescues foliage from the heavy blacks it otherwise falls into.

What it changes

Greens lighten by roughly a stop of tonal value. Leaves, grass and moss keep their internal structure instead of collapsing into a dark mass. Reds darken slightly, which is exactly what a face needs: blemishes, flushed cheeks and lips stop standing out.

Blue skies darken a little, less than with yellow. So you get a modest sky improvement alongside the skin benefit.

When to use it

Portraits in daylight, especially outdoors. Gardens, forests and anything where green fills the frame. Spring and summer landscape where the green is the subject rather than the sky.

It is the wrong choice for dramatic sky work, where the red variant does far more, and for winter scenes with no foliage to lift.