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Above/featured: Taunusanlage train station, Frankfurt am Main – 18 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, I’ve provided examples of X70 images with the following recipes:

•   CineStill 800T
•   Ektachrome 100SW (saturated warm)
•   Fujichrome Slide
•   Kodachrome 64
•   Kodacolor
•   Kodak Platinum 200
•   Monochrome Red

Here I show images made with the “Kodak Color Negative” recipe, which Ritchie Roesch describes in Fuji X Weekly:

… The aesthetic that I was hoping to achieve with this recipe was Kodak Portra 400. I don’t believe that I succeeded in faithfully mimicking that (sometimes there’s a similarity); however, it does seem to produce a Kodak-like color negative film look, perhaps more like Ultramax, but not exactly that, either. Whatever it does or doesn’t resemble, I personally really like the aesthetic produced by this recipe …

The recipe is for X-Trans II sensors and the built-in availability of “Classic Chrome”. The settings on my X70 are:

• “Classic Chrome” built-in film-sim
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Color: +2 (High)
• Sharpness: -1 (Medium-Soft)
• Highlight: -2 (Soft)
• Shadow: -1 (Medium-Soft)
• Noise Reduction: -2 (Low)
• White Balance: Incandescent; +6 Red, -7 Blue
• ISO: Auto, up to 3200

I assigned this recipe for my “indoor” setting as 1 of the 7 camera’s custom presets, but the recipe’s versatility allowed for additional tests at outside locations. The following JPG images are “almost” straight-out-of-the-camera: only minor 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. The blue (“cool”) colour-cast is very real, which is especially evident on images made outdoors under sunny conditions.

“Kodak Color Negative” recipe

“Flugort, Tatort.” The Squaire, Flughafen Frankfurt am Main Airport – 11 May 2023.

Klimt exhibition in Vienna’s Lower Belvedere – 13 May 2023.

Final panel of the “Beethoven Frieze”, by Gustav Klimt; 1901–1902 copy of the frieze’s final panel “Paradieschor und Umarmung” (Choir of Heavenly Angels and Embrace). The choir of angels and the final embrace by the couple embody the chorus of Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode an die Freude” (Ode to Joy) in the 4th and final movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Vienna Upper Belvedere – 13 May 2023.

Erholungsgebiet Wienerberg, Vienna – 26 May 2023.

“Herminengasse”, by Michaela Melián (2017), inside Vienna Schottenring station – 27 May 2023.

Inside Vienna’s Steinhof church, designed by Otto Wagner – 28 May 2023.

Ferstelpassage, inside Vienna’s Palais Ferstel – 2 Jun 2023.

Vienna’s Spittelau U-Bahnhof, Müllverbrennungsanlage Wien Energie – 3 Jun 2023.

Vienna’s Heiligenstadt train station – 14 Jun 2023.

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-qt7.