My Fuji X70: Monochrome Red (XTrans2 recipe)
Above/featured: Gateway Gardens station, Frankfurt am Main – 11 May 2023.
The Fujifilm X70 mirrorless fixed-lens prime camera has added a lot to my approach to photography for projects in both 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:
• CineStill 800T
• Ektachrome 100SW (saturated warm)
• Fujichrome Slide
• Kodachrome 64
• Kodacolor
• Kodak Platinum 200
I examine the Monochrome+R film-simulation recipe, which Ritchie Roesch describes in Fuji X Weekly:
… Back when I shot black-and-white film, I usually used a color filter to manipulate the shades of grey, and for landscape photography the Red filter was my most-used option. You cannot use these filters on your Fujifilm camera, but Fujifilm does provide you with three faux filters: +Y, +R, and +G. These mimic the aesthetic of using a Yellow, Red, or Green filter (sort of). In my opinion, +R doesn’t actually replicate the use of a Red filter very well; it’s more like an Orange filter. This recipe is intended to produce a look more similar to a Red filter on black-and-white film, which means that it will darken blues and lighten reds.
This recipe is for the X-Trans II sensor. My X70 settings are:
- “Monochrome+R” built-in film-sim
- Dynamic Range: DR400
- Color: —
- Sharpness: +1 (Medium-Hard)
- Highlight: -1 (Medium-Soft)
- Shadow: +2 (Hard)
- Noise Reduction: -2 (Low)
- White Balance: Fluorescent1 (day); -4 Red, +7 Blue
- ISO: Auto, up to 6400
I had assigned this recipe as “general black and white”, with which I experimented in a variety of locations and settings. The following images are almost straight-out-of-the-camera; only adjustments to brightness level and size (2048 by 1365 pix) have been applied, with no corrections to colour, contrast, geometric distortion, or rotation.
Monochrome Red images
I made all photos above with an Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime in May and June 2023. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-qtd.
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