Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Print like film recipe using the Classic Negative film simulation

Although there seems to be a lot of negative sentiment towards it nowadays, Instagram still has some excellent photography being shared, and I find that some of the best is found on some specific hashtags. One such tag is #restorefrombackup where users submit film photos and analog styled digital.

All the film favourites are there, with monotone, Portra, faded and classic negative print styles. In my Restore from Backup film recipe, I’ve taken Classic Negative and aimed to enhance its nostalgic 35mm print look with grain, warmth and punchy shadows. Most of the impact comes of course from Fujifilm’s tremendous Classic Negative simulation, and I love how print like the results can be with these settings.

Restore from Backup Film Recipe

• Simulation: Classic Negative
• Grain Effect: Strong, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Off
• Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
• White Balance: Auto White Priority
• WB Shift: +4 Red, -6 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Highlights: -0.5 (or 0 if your camera doesn’t do 0.5)
• Shadows: +1.5 (or 1 if your camera doesn’t do 0.5)
• Color: +1
• Sharpness: -1
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: 0
• EV compensation: +1/3

More Print Like Film Recipes

Here are a few other choices for a film print style…

• Back in the Day – like prints from the 80s and 90s
• Decade Print – with a look like aging print images
• Nostalgic Fujicolor – A Superia prints film recipe

• Nostalgic Print – the FujiXWeekly take on aging prints
• Scanned Superia – a Fuji print look, from FujiXWeekly
• Color Negative 400 – Deep Classic Negative tones, FXW

• Nostalgic Negative – a classic by Joe Dagostino