cs800t_film

A Z-Image Turbo LoRA that emulates the signature look of Cinestill 800T — the tungsten-balanced cinema film stock

famous for its red halation glow around light sources, pushed grain, and moody low-light color response.

Trigger word: cs800t_film

Base model: Z-Image Turbo

What it does

Pulls your generations toward the Cinestill 800T aesthetic:

- Halation — that unmistakable red/orange bloom around streetlights, neon signs, headlights, windows. The thing that

made the stock a cult favorite.

- Tungsten color science — warm highlights, cool shadows, night scenes that look alive instead of flat

- Pushed grain — organic film texture, not digital noise

- Low-light shot language — rain-slick streets, neon after midnight, interiors lit by a single bulb, that "shot on

35mm at ISO 1600" mood

Works on anything — portraits, cityscapes, interiors, surreal scenes — but shines hardest when there's a practical

light source in frame to bloom.

Training

Trained on 200 hand-curated images pulled from r/analog, r/cinestill, r/35mm, and r/AnalogCommunity. Source images

scraped with query filters for Cinestill 800T specifically (night, portrait, pushed stock variants), scored, manually

reviewed, rejects . Minimum 1080px width to preserve grain detail. Full provenance recorded per image.

Four checkpoints trained: 750 / 1500 / 2250 / 3000 steps — pick your preferred strength of the effect.

Recommended settings

- Strength: 0.7–1.0 (can push to 1.2 for heavier halation)

- Prompt pattern: cs800t_film, [your scene], [lighting cue] — always include at least one light source in the

description to give the halation something to bite on

- Best with: night scenes, neon, tungsten interiors, rain, fog, cinematic framing

Example prompts

cs800t_film, a solitary figure in a trench coat walking down a flooded grocery

store aisle, shelves stocked with glowing vials, eerie lighting

cs800t_film, ancient knight sitting on a late-night subway train, neon lights

flickering outside the window, moody cinematic color grading

cs800t_film, diner waitress taking an order from a shadow person, 1950s

aesthetic, harsh dramatic rim lighting, intense film grain

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Trained by MSch. Dataset transparency: every source image is a public reddit post with a recorded permalink. No

synthetic training data, no undisclosed scraping.