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 (IV) / Weak (V)
- 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.
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