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Above/featured: Archangel Michael dispatching the devil: St. Michael’s Church, Vienna – 1 Jun 2023.

The Fujifilm X70 mirrorless fixed-lens prime camera has added a lot to my approach to photography for projects in domestic and international scope. To satisfy my curiosity about Fujifilm’s analog-film simulation (film-sim) recipes for varying “looks” and “palettes” applied to images, I’ve provided examples of X70 images with these recipes:

•   Ektachrome 100SW (saturated warm)
•   Fujichrome Slide
•   Kodachrome 64
•   Kodacolor
•   Kodak Platinum 200

Here I show images made with the “CineStill 800T” recipe, which Ritchie Roesch describes in Fuji X Weekly:

… CineStill 800T is Kodak Vision3 500T motion picture film that’s been modified for use in 35mm film cameras and development using the C-41 process. Because it has the RemJet layer removed, it is more prone to halation. The “T” in the name means tungsten-balanced, which is a fancy way of saying that it is white-balanced for artificial light and not daylight. … Even though the film that this recipe is intended to mimic is Tungsten-balanced, the recipe can still produce interesting pictures in daylight. It’s a versatile recipe, but it definitely delivers the best results in artificial light.

The recipe is for the X-Trans II sensor; the settings on my X70 are:

• “Pro Neg Std” built-in film-sim
• Dynamic Range: DR400
• Color: -1 (Medium-Low)
• Sharpness: 0 (Medium)
• Highlight: +2 (High)
• Shadow: +1 (Medium-High)
• Noise Reduction: -2 (Low)
• White Balance: 4300K; -3 Red, -3 Blue
• ISO: Auto, up to 3200

I assigned this recipe for the “nighttime” setting as 1 of the 7 camera’s custom presets, but I also experimented in daylight at a variety of locations. The following JPG images are “almost” straight-out-of-the-camera; only adjustments to brightness level and a crop to a predefined image size have been applied, with no corrections to colour, contrast, geometric distortion, or rotation. I agree with Roesch’s statement about getting “best results” after dark in artificial light, but I got some interesting images in daylight as well.

CineStill 800T recipe

2049h, Gateway Gardens station, Frankfurt am Main – 11 May 2023.

Erholungsgebiet Wienerberg, Vienna – 26 May 2023.

Hofburg: Michaelertrakt dome, Vienna – 1 Jun 2023.

Spittelau: U-Bahn station, incineration plant tower – 3 Jun 2023.

Würstelprater amusement park, Vienna – 12 Jun 2023.

Praterstern station, Vienna – 12 Jun 2023.

Café Prückel, Vienna – 13 Jun 2023.

2254h, Frankfurt am Main central station – 15 Jun 2023.

Frankfurt city skyline and the Main river at dusk – 17 Jun 2023.

0852h, tracks 18 and 19 at Frankfurt am Main central station – 19 Jun 2023.

I made all photos above in May and June 2023 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-aUx.