Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Nostalgic, soft tone and vintage film recipes using Fujifilm film simulations

Outdoor Cinema, Dreamy Low Contrast

Soft tones film simulation recipe for Fujifilm X-Trans IV with Eterna setting

This film recipe uses the Eterna / Cinema film simulation with a warm white balance and softened highlights. It brings a mellow warmth to your photos and when shooting outdoors, it works well at controlling bright conditions, and adding a warmer mood to cloudy days.

This has some of the softest contrast of my Eterna recipes, and with the 5, -5 WB shift, it features a retro tone, bringing out the brown green tint of Eterna in the images. In fact, only Ultrasoft 77 is softer.

In a twist, this recipe uses clarity and sharpness for crisp edges, so you get soft tones, but sharp images. I like this look and enjoy how it works with the low contrast. However, you may prefer to stay softer and more natural, so this is shown as optional in the details below.

Winchester Cathedral, taken with the Outdoor Cinema film recipe

Outdoor Cinema Film Recipe

Simulation: Eterna Cinema
Grain Effect: Weak, Small
Colour Chrome Effect: Off
Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
White Balance: Auto
WB Shift: +5 Red, -5 Blue
Dynamic Range: DR400
Highlights: -1.5
Shadows: +0.5
Colour: -3
Sharpness: +2 (or leave at 0 for softness)
ISO Noise Reduction: -4
Clarity: +2 (set to 0 for softness)
EV compensation: +2/3

A fallen leaf on a misty winter morning. Outdoor Cinema film recipe

Scenes from a misty woodland walk, captured with Outdoor Cinema recipe

Footpath through the oat field, with Outdoor Cinema recipe

Oats swishing in the wind, with Outdoor Cinema film recipe

Which way? Taken with Outdoor Cinema film recipe

Winter ferns in soft tones, with the Outdoor Cinema recipe

Ferns behind ferns for a mono look, taken with Outdoor Cinema recipe

Dew drop in the morning light, with Outdoor Cinema recipe

Fly amantia mushrooms, low down with Outdoor Cinema recipe

Autumn mushroom hunting, with the Outdoor Cinema film recipe

A first sign of Spring? Captured wtih Outdoor Cinema recipe

At the tennis club, with Outdoor Cinema film recipe

Looking through, taken with Outdoor Cinema film recipe

Birch trees, taken with the Outdoor Cinema film recipe

A forest trail, taken with Outdoor Cinema film recipe

Walking trail across the heath, captured with Outdoor Cinema recipe

Boats in the marina, with Outdoor Cinema film recipe

Low contrast on a dull day, Outdoor Cinema film recipe

Along a shady path, with the Outdoor Cinema film recipe

Biking the trail, with Outdoor Cinema film recipe

Soft and pale tones of Outdoor Cinema film recipe

For a similar look, try Eterna Nostalgia, which shares the same white balance, but has deeper contrast and increased saturation. Or, for super softness, the Ultrasoft 77 recipe is the one to try.