Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

An Acros film simulation recipe with a bright look for every day use

Our Fujifilm cameras come loaded with excellent mono film simulations, including Acros that mimics black and white film stock. Just like the colour simulations, you can also adjust the mono simulations with a variety of options to achieve different looks.

For this recipe, called Monographic, I wanted a recipe that was characterful, but also forgiving in everyday situations. Some recipes give a dark image that can lose the essence of day to day scenes. This one, loves to show off the light with lifted mid-tones, whilst still delivering impactful but balanced shadow.

Monographic Film Recipe

• Simulation: Acros Yellow Filter
• Grain Effect: Strong, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
• White Balance: Auto
• WB Shift: 9 Red, 0 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Highlights: -2
• Shadows: +2
• Mono Shift: WC 2, MG 0
• Sharpness: -2
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: 0
• EV compensation: +1/3 to +2/3

This recipe does use a couple of settings for new cameras, but on an older sensor, you could set grain to Strong and skip the setting for Color Chrome if you camera doesn’t have it.

More Mono Recipes

There are certainly fewer mono recipes than colour available for our cameras, but there are some fantastic ones none the less. I have a page of monotone recipes, and these are all from other creators on their sites.

• Black Beauty – Moody and balanced recipe for Captn Look
• Kodak Tri-X 400 – by Anders Lindborg via Fuji X Weekly
• Ilford Ortho Plus 80 – mimic of a unique B&W film, Ritchie Roesch
• Leica M10 X-Trans IV – Mark Adams’ Leica-like mono recipe
• Padilla – grainy and amazing, by Kevin Mullins
• New Scala – stylish Agfa film recipe by Marcel Fraij
• Grainstorm 3200 – High grain and high contrast from Pekka Keskinen