Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Warm shifted film recipe for nostalgic retro images with Classic Chrome

The word whakamuri is a Maori word that translates loosely as ‘looking back’ or ‘counting backwards’, so I’ve adopted it as the name of this retro toned recipe for styling images with a golden aged tone.

The base film simulation is Classic Chrome which is pushed far far into the warm tones zone with a +6, -8 colour balance shift. This gives a strong yellow creamy styling to most images and is the heart of the look.

In keeping with the nostalgic retro theme, shadows are softened and colour is muted. There’s a dose of grain in here too, along with negative clarity adding to the slightly hazy analog feel.

Whakamuri Film Recipe

• Simulation: Classic Chrome
• Grain Effect: Strong, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
• White Balance: Auto
• WB Shift: +6 Red, -8 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR400
• Highlights: +0.5
• Shadows: -1.0
• Color: -3
• Sharpness: 0
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: -2
• EV compensation: +1/3

Whakamuri has a close relative, a sister recipe Analogico. Take a look 🙂