Vintage Mood, for a Nostalgic Soft Look

Eterna based film simulation recipe for a retro look with Fujifilm cameras

There are quite a variety of nostalgic film recipes on this site, with different takes on what a ‘vintage look’ is. Almost all of them do share a warm colour balance, sometimes slight, but often quite strong. This recipe has a balance shift on the very warm side, but with Eterna as a base, the result is a distinctly retro looking tone.

As well as this retro colour shift, there is light grain, boosted shadows and highlights and softness from a negative sharpness and negative clarity setting. The end result is noticably different to Eterna Nostalgia, a similarly themed Eterna recipe, but both of them have a nostalgic vibe of different types.

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Vintage Mood Film Recipe

• Simulation: Eterna/Cinema
• Grain Effect: Weak, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Strong (IV) / Weak (V)
• White Balance: Daylight
• WB Shift: +6 Red, -6 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Highlights: +1.0
• Shadows: +1.0
• Color: +4
• Sharpness: -1
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: -2
• EV compensation: +1/3

Vintage & Nostalgic Film Recipes

Vintage look recipes are a real feature of the Fujifilm film recipe scene, with plenty to choose from in a wide range of nostalgic styles. At their heart are warm tones and an aged look. There are plenty on this site, but also some great ones elsewhere.

• New American Color – a classic 1970s look. Øyvind Nordhagen.
• Vintage Vibes – a mellow look with Classic Negative. FXWeekly.
• Vintage Kodachrome – decidedly retro Kodak vibes. FXWeekly.
• Vintage Agfacolor – teal tones + retro, from Fuji X Weekly again.
• Fujicolor C200 Expired – deep and aged look, from Ivan Cheam.
• Tokyo Dream – hazy and nostalgic recipe, from Ivan Cheam.
• Vintage Look – brown tones retro recipe, by E. Fung.