Eterna film simulation recipe to mimic the look of Kodak Aerocolor 125
One of my first recipes based on photo samples from real film was the aged look of expired Kodak Aerocolor. I called it Aerocolor Lomo, and although I love the green tones it produces, it’s something of a specialist recipe.
Revisiting the little known Kodak Aerocolor samples again, I was able to find a handful from non-expired stock that helped me shape this recipe. The most important step with this exercise is choosing the base simulation, and for Aerocolor, I found that Eterna gave the best match.
Other settings include deeper shadows, a small lift to color and a fixed point white balance for a warm, but still natural look. Whilst there is no clarity in use, Chrome Blue is set, so for older cameras, that would need to be skipped.
Kodak Aerocolor Film Recipe
- Simulation: Eterna/Cinema
- Grain Effect: Weak, Small
- Colour Chrome Effect: Off
- Colour Chrome Blue: Strong (IV) / Weak (V)
- White Balance: 6450K
- WB Shift: +4 Red, -2 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR200
- Highlights: +1.0
- Shadows: +3.0
- Color: +1
- Sharpness: +1
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: 0
- EV compensation: +1/3
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