Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Monochrome film recipe for Fujiflim X-Trans IV cameras

I read that the theme for May 2022’s #10YearsOfXMount challenge is mono, so what better time to release my first monochrome recipe? This recipe is colour toned with a dark chocolate hue, so it’s less toffee orange than the built in sepia simulation, but still has a definite cast to it.

I don’t shoot black and white photography very often, and I generally prefer a faded, soft tones look to my images. So this recipe tries to sit somewhere in that area, but starting with the monochrome simulation.

It’s a fun recipe to play with, giving a very different look to scenes usually taken in colour, and with the ‘R filter’ in use, it can isolate elements in an image that a colour shot wouldn’t have highlighted. I hope you’ll enjoy experimenting with it.

Compare this to Bromide Mono, for a similar style, or for a different mono look, try Cyanotype film recipe.

Chocolate Mono Film Recipe

• Simulation: Monochrome + Red Filter (option)
• Grain Effect: Weak, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
• White Balance: Auto
• WB Shift: 0 Red, +4 Blue
• Mono Shift: WC +5, MG -1
• Dynamic Range: DR400
• Highlights: +1
• Shadows: +1
• Colour: N/A
• Sharpness: +2
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: 0
• EV compensation: +1/3