Soft tones film simulation recipe for Fujifilm X-Trans IV with Eterna setting
Outdoor Cinema
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.
Outdoor Cinema Film Recipe Settings
| Film Simulation | Eterna/Cinema |
| Grain Effect | Weak, Small |
| Col. Chr. Effect | Off |
| Col. Chr. Blue | Weak |
| White Balance | Auto, +5 Red, ‑5 Blue |
| Dynamic Range | DR200 |
| Highlights | ‑1.5 |
| Shadows | 0.5 |
| Colour | ‑3 |
| Sharpness | 2 |
| ISO N.R. | ‑4 |
| Clarity | 2 |
| EV Comp. | +2/3 |
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