Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Pro Neg Standard film recipe for a Kodak Gold look on Fujifilm X-Trans IV

It’s good to have a setting that you can just rely on, and know it’ll give a great result in all sorts of conditions. This recipe is based upon Pro Neg Standard, and is aimed at being a good-to-go film recipe.

The look was modelled on the Kodak Gold aesthetic, with a warmer tone and mid-saturation colours. It shares a number of settings, including the colour balance with the Kodak Gold recipe that uses Classic Chrome. This recipe is richer, with a bit more punch, reflecting the use of Pro Negative Standard.

If your memory of Kodak Gold is something from an earlier decade, you might also enjoy Kojak Gold, a nostalgic take on the Kodak Gold 200 look.

Gold Standard Film Recipe

• Simulation: Pro Neg Standard
• Grain Effect: Weak, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Off
• White Balance: Daylight
• WB Shift: +4 Red, -5 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Highlights: -1
• Shadows: +1
• Colour: -2
• Sharpness: -2
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: 0
• EV compensation: +1/3

Portrait Examples with Gold Standard

By popular demand, a couple of skin tone portrait examples. You’ll have to make do with selfies for now!

Going for Gold

Kodak Gold 200 was such a universal film that there are several interpretations of the look in Fujifilm film recipes. I have two (so far!) and there are others to consider on other sites as well. Here are some to review…

• Kodak Gold – based upon Classic Chrome
• Kodak Gold v2 – FujiXWeekly version
• Kodak Gold – for X-Trans III & IV from FXW
• Kodak Gold – from Piotr Skrzypek

What about a retro faded Kodak Gold? Yep, there’s a recipe for that too…

• Classic Gold – faded, aged and softened Kodak Gold