Eterna Bleach Bypass film simulation recipe with muted pale tones
I hadn’t heard this slang term for a long time, but when I overheard someone accusing their parent of being an Old Fossil recently, I was reminded of it and it stuck in my mind. I’m not so sure that this recipe reflects a fossilised look, but it is a pale tones style, based on Eterna Bleach Bypass, that would work well should I find one in a rock somewhere.
Eterna Bleach Bypass is present only on the newer cameras, and is something of a divisive look. I find it’s fun to work with, delivering muted tones with a wide choice of colour casts. In this one, I’ve kept things natural, adjusting the ‘out of the box’ balance with a WB of Fluo 3, with 3 R and -9 B.
Old Fossil Film Recipe
- Simulation: Eterna Bleach Bypass
- Grain Effect: Weak, Small
- Colour Chrome Effect: Off
- Colour Chrome Blue: Off
- White Balance: Fluorescent 3
- WB Shift: +3 Red, -9 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR400
- Highlights: 0.0
- Shadows: -1.0
- Color: +2
- Sharpness: -1
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: 0
- EV compensation: 0
Eterna Bleach Bypass Recipes
The Eterna Bleach Bypass film simulation is one of the newer film simulations, present only on a handful of Fujifilm cameras. It’s not available on the popular X100V, for example. But, for those of us that have it, there are a range of new styles available to try. Here are a few from this and other sites…
- Hipsta Ray – A creamy mellow look with coffee tones
- Diamond White – For crispy ice blue and white image
- Expired Film 66 – Like old photo prints from the 1960’s
- Blanko Bleach – Drama and tone with striking skies
- Grizzly Ride – Deep warm tones, by Captn Look
- Analog Gold – Winter paleness, from Fuji X Weekly
- Cine Matte – Cine tones with bypass, by Ivan Cheam
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 