A versatile film recipe for Kodak Ultramax using the Astia film simulation
Whilst most of my film recipes fit into the nostalgic recipes or warm tones recipes categories, I do occasionally try to make a look that mimics the feel of a real 35mm film.
Finding a good selection of sample images is the key, and then looking to match the aesthetic with one of the available film simulations. I find that prints tend to vary quite a bit, and whilst Fujicolor ones most often look similar to Classic Negative, ones by other marques don’t, from the sample images at least, follow a set pattern. For Kodak Ultramax, I found Astia the best match, and so this is the base sim for the recipe.
Kodak Ultramax Film Recipe
- Simulation: Astia/Soft
- Grain Effect: Weak, Small
- Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
- Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
- White Balance: Underwater
- WB Shift: +3 Red, -5 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR200
- Highlights: +0.5 (use +1 if your camera doesn’t support 0.5)
- Shadows: +0.5 (use 0 if your camera doesn’t support 0.5)
- Color: -2
- Sharpness: -2
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: 0
- EV compensation: +1/3
Kodak Ultramax by Other Creators
Just like with Kodachrome and Portra, there are multiple versions of Kodak Ultramax out there. I’m happy with the one I have created, but you may prefer one of these instead.
- Kodak Ultramax 400 – Provia based Ultramax, by Piotr Skrzypek
- Kodak Ultramax 400 – Classic Chrome based, from Fuji X Weekly
You can also take a look at my other Kodak film recipes.
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 
2 responses to “Kodak Ultramax, a Film Based All Rounder”
But it does look like a (long and limp) baguette from this angle 😀
But more interestingly, the gold post box!
The bench setting, though, so peaceful.
Love looking at photos without people, it makes my brain happy. I’m intensely introverted. My brain can’t filter out faces and voices.
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Thank you … I’ll thin baguette whenever I pass by there now!
Yes, I really love the gold postboxes. They started in 2012 I think, when the Olympics were in London, and they continue today. There are even a few rogue ones to support people who everyone associates with a town, even if it’s not quite true!
I don’t dislike people at all, or striking up a conversation, but I prefer natural images and scenes with only occasional people in. I think I have more with animals than people, ha ha!
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