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Above/featured: Morning light in San Francisco’s Financial District. Photo, 29 Mar 2025.

The Fujifilm X70 mirrorless fixed-lens prime camera has added a lot to my approach to photography for projects in both domestic and international settings. 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 Color Negative
•   Kodak Platinum 200
•   Monochrome Red

What follows are images made with the “Portra Sunset” recipe, which Yon Pol describes in their YouTube video.

This 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, but I’ve set this to DR400
• Color: +2 (High)
• Sharpness: -1 (Medium-Soft)
• Highlight: -1 (Medium-Soft)
• Shadow: -1 (Medium-Soft)
• Noise Reduction: -2 (Low)
• White Balance: Daylight; +3 Red, -5 Blue
• ISO: Auto, up to 3200

I assigned this recipe for an “all-purpose or daytime” setting as 1 of the 7 camera’s custom presets. 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.

Just like the Kodachrome 64 recipe, Portra Sunrise uses the Classic Chrome film-sim in-camera setting that produces accentuated reds and an overall orangey-flavour. Blues seem more “subdued”, until foreground objects are illuminated against a clear blue sky. There’s more “diffuse washout” when I point closer to the sun. I imagine I’d get similar results with the Standard Provia film-sim under a clear sky with higher dust- or smoke-content in the atmosphere.

“Portra Sunset” recipe

Bay Area sunset from Emeryville Marina Park in Emeryville, California – 18 Mar 2025.

From Pier 1: Ferry Building and downtown San Francisco – 21 Mar 2025.

San Francisco State University, facing southeast: centre-background: San Bruno mountain, centre-foreground: J. Paul Leonard Library, right-foreground: Cesar Chavez Student Center. Photo, 24 Mar 2025.

“Peace”, by Italian-American artist Beniamino Bufano (1938–1939), dedicated in 1958 and formerly installed at the entrance to San Francisco International Airport and now as seen here, in San Francisco’s Brotherhood Mini Dog Park. Photo, 24 Mar 2025.

Pacific Ocean at left, and San Francisco’s Ocean Beach at right. Photo, 24 Mar 2025.

Otarine (sea lion) & larine (seagull) part-time residents of San Francisco’s Pier 39. Photo, 24 Mar 2025.

A burst of rain lands onshore at The Presidio of San Francisco – 313pm, 31 Mar 2025.

15 minutes after the rain, The Presidio of San Francisco – 328pm, 31 Mar 2025.

Main Parade Lawn, The Presidio of San Francisco – 31 Mar 2025.

“Anansi”, by African-American artist Henry C. Rollins (1974): 11th St. at Oak St., in Oakland, California. Photo, 1 Apr 2025.

Screen capture from yon_pol’s video.

I made all photos above with an Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime from 18 March to 1 April 2025. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-sdk.