Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

What if Kodak had a black and white film as part of the Kodachrome family?

In my experiments with monotone film recipes, I thought to myself … what if Kodak had stuck with early plans for Kodachrome to be a mono film? It would have a different look to Tri-X and would capture the full range of tones, being versatile, and a specific interest for me, excellent for landscape photography.

So, after a late night editing session in X RAW Studio, I settled on this film recipe to give us a this Kodachrome Mono option.

The main feature of this recipe is the soft tone curve, with a generally brighter overall image, preserving lots of shadow detail. This makes it versatile for everyday photography, without the deep impactful shadows that can sometimes limit a mono recipe for day to day use.

Kodachrome Mono Film Recipe

• Simulation: Monochrome
• Grain Effect: Strong, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Off
• Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
• White Balance: Auto
• WB Shift: +2 Red, -5 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Highlights: +1.0
• Shadows: -1.0
• Mono Shift: WC 1, MG 0 (ignore for pure mono)
• Sharpness: -1
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: 0
• EV compensation: +1/3

Whilst our recipes are unrelated, having been created entirely separately, Fuji X Weekly has a Mono Kodachrome recipe too. Take a look.