Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Creamy Kodak Portra film simulation recipe for Fujifilm X-trans IV cameras

Some things seem to be made to go together, and in our world of film simulations and recipes, it’s Kodak Portra and fading Americana. Think of an abandoned gas station on a dusty desert highway. Creamy tones and washed out colours give a nostalgic feel. It’s the retro look of a trip along Route 66.

I haven’t been to the American West in about a decade, so I developed this recipe closer to home. I took it out and about on a city walk in Winchester and on some walks in the New Forest.

Kodak Portra 66 Film Recipe

• Simulation: Classic Chrome
• Grain Effect: Weak, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Strong
• Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
• White Balance: Daylight
• WB Shift: +6 Red, -4 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Highlights: -2
• Shadows: -1
• Colour: -2
• Sharpness: +2
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: 0
• EV compensation: +2/3

More Portra Recipes

• Kodak Portra – a classic Portra 160 look
• Kodak Portra Grainy – for a Portra 400 style
• Kodak Portra Daily – Kodak Portra with an auto white balance

And here are some great choices from other sites

• Portra 160 – Fuji X Weekly
• Portra 160 – Piotr Skrzypek
• Portra 400 – Fuji X Weekly
• Portra 400 – IvanYolo
• Portra 800 – Fuji X Weekly

And, finally … a big thanks to Ritchie Roesch for testing out Kodak Portra 66 on shots taken at the derelict Sun ‘n’ Sand Motel on Historic Route 66.