Mono film simulation recipe with a Kodak Tri-X look and subtle colour tone
I am often inspired by photographs and recipes that others have made. This is one of those cases. The Kodak Tri-X 400 recipe on Fuji X Weekly is one of my favourite black and white recipes, with grain (which I love) and impact (which I also love). However, I am so addicted to my muted tones and colour casts, that I really wanted to adjust the recipe to add this element.
So, if you want to shoot with an unadjusted, excellent Tri-X look, jump over to Ritchie’s recipe, but if you’d like to try my tweaked version with a subtle colour tone, the details are below.
Kodak Tri-X 33 Film Recipe
- Simulation: Acros + Green Filter
- Grain Effect: Strong, Large
- Colour Chrome Effect: Strong
- Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
- White Balance: Auto
- WB Shift: 0 Red, 0 Blue
- Mono Shift: WC +3, MG +3
- Dynamic Range: DR200
- Highlights: 0
- Shadows: +3
- Colour: N/A
- Sharpness: +1
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: +4
- EV compensation: +2/3
See the original recipe for Kodak Tri-X 400 on Fuji X Weekly
Black & White Film Recipes
Every monotone recipe on this site is toned with a subtle colour shift. This isn’t to everyone’s taste, so here are few excellent pure black and white recipes to satisfy your needs…
- Washi S 50 – a bold look for dramatic images, from Piotr Skrzypek
- Acros Punch – tried and tested travel recipe, from Jamie Chance
- Padilla, Imai, 50s Noir & Newspaper – four recipes, all excellent from Kevin Mullins
- Kodak T-Max 400 – a film like recipe with deep shadows, from Fuji X Weekly
- Ilford HP5 Plus 400 – a refined look with strong grain, by Anders Lindborg, hosted on Fuji X Weekly
And a couple of similarly excellent ones that do have a subtle colour tone…
- New Scala – smooth tone and bright highlights, from Marcel Fraij
- Leica M10 Mono – Leica M10 style, with a subtle tone
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 