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Above/featured: South portal, Lions Gate Bridge – 25 Jun 2021.

I wrote about how the Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime has been great for my photography. Fujifim prides itself on good to faithful reproductions of film simulations (film-sims). For the most part, I’ve used the default or “Standard” setting, equivalent to the “Provia” film-sim which is one of 11 film-sims built into the X70.

I learned about other film-sims, particularly those applicable to the older X-Trans II sensor that’s in my X70 camera. I’ve been interested in digital reproductions of “old” colour slide film, and seeing how images over a variety of subject matter appear with a film-sim that looks a little more like “old school film”. Ritchie Roesch describes in Fuji X Weekly the differences between the Kodachrome II and Kodachrome 64 film-sims; the former resembling the look of Kodak film from the 1960s to the mid-1970s and the latter echoing the final version of the film-type from the mid-1970s to 2009. Roesch provides additional historical context to the development of Kodachrome film here.

Here I’ve used the Kodachrome 64 film-sim recipe with the following settings:

• ‘Classic Chrome’ built-in film-sim
• Dynamic Range: DR400
• Highlight: +2 (High)
• Shadow: +1 (Medium-High)
• Color: 0 (Medium)
• Sharpness: 0 (Medium)
• Noise Reduction: -2 (Low)
• White Balance: Daylight; 0 Red, -3 Blue
• ISO: Auto up to 3200 (or fixed to 1000)

All recipes sorted by specific sensor are found here.

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