My Fuji X70: Kodak Color Negative (XTrans2 recipe)
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
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.
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