Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Classic chrome film simulation recipe for X-Trans IV based on Kodak 35mm film

Here’s a Classic Chrome film simulation recipe that mimics a 35mm film from Kodak. The film in question is Kodak Pro Image 100, which was released into a spot somewhere between Kodak’s Portra and Gold films, sitting in the professionsal film range, but at an everyday price. It’s something of a mid-position film with 35mm qualities that I found I could mimic with Classic Chrome.

The Kodak Pro Image film recipe, keeps the colour balance close to neutral, and relies on the Color Chrome effects to deliver film like character that I observed when reviewing samples of the Pro Image 100 film stock.

Because this recipe uses Color Chrome Blue and one step of Clarity, it does mean it is designed for the later X-Trans IV cameras, although you may be able to get similar results on other models by using just the settings that your camera supports.

Kodak Pro Image Film Recipe

• Simulation: Classic Chrome
• Grain Effect: Off
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
• White Balance: Auto
• WB Shift: +2 Red, -1 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Highlights: -1.5 (or -1 if your camera requires whole numbers)
• Shadows: -0.5 (or -1 if your camera requires whole numbers)
• Color: +1
• Sharpness: 0
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: +1
• EV compensation: +1/3

USER PHOTOS: Get inspired by photos from other photographers like you. See the Kodak Pro Image User Gallery, from the Feb 2023 round of the Film Recipes Challenge.

Want more Kodak looks? See our selection further down this page.

Kodak Film Recipe Selection

Thanks largely to the Classic Chrome film sumilation, there are a wide range of film-like Kodak recipes available for our Fujifilm X Series cameras. Creators such a Fuji X Weekly and Piotr Skrzypek have published a wide selection. Here are a few top choices to get you started from this and those two other fine sites.

Kodachrome Film Recipes

• Kodachrome 64 – Fuji X Weekly
• Kodachrome 25 – Fuji X Weekly
• Kodachrome Daily – Film.Recipes
• Kodachrome – Film.Recipes

Kodak Portra Film Recipes

• Kodak Portra Daily – Film.Recipes
• Kodak Portra Grainy – Film.Recipes
• Kodak Portra 400 v2 – Fuji X Weekly
• Kodak Portra 160 – Piotr Skrzypek

Kodak Gold Film Recipes

• Kodak Gold 200 – Piotr Skrzypek
• Kodak Gold – Film.Recipes
• Gold Standard – Film.Recipes
• Kodak Gold v2 – Fuji X Weekly

Kodak Ektar Film Recipes

• Kodak Ektar 100 – Piotr Skrzypek
• Kodak Ektar – Film.Recipes
• Kodak Ektar – Fuji X Weekly
• Kodak Ektar 100 – Øyvind Nordhagen

Kodak Ultramax Film Recipes

• Kodak Ultramax – Film.Recipes
• Kodak Ultramax 400 – Fuji X Weekly
• Kodak Ultramax – Piotr Skrzypek

Retro Themed Kodak Recipes

• Classic Gold – Film.Recipes
• Vintage Kodachrome – Film.Recipes
• Kodachrome Classic – Film.Recipes
• Kodak like it’s 1975 – Film.Recipes
• Old Kodak – Fuji X Weekly
• Old Ektachrome – Fuji X Weekly