Classic Chrome film simulation recipe that emulates a vintage lens style
Xylochrome
Druring my film recipe creation process, I occasionally hit on a settings combination that produces a look that is completely different than I had expected. This experiment was just like that.
I was playing with X RAW Studio to make a Classic Chrome recipe with a downward scale of settings with 5, 4, 3 ,2 ,1 starting with a colour temperature of 5430K, a shift of 2, 1, and so on through the settings, until I added at the end of the scale, the strongest negative clarity setting, -5.
I normally avoid settings quite this strong, but on this occasion it added a softness that immediately reminded me of vintage lens photos that I had seen. The softness was like an imperfection, with a character that was decidely analog, especially in the out of focus areas of my images.
This vintage blur isn’t so visible at phone screen sizes, so I’ve provided a crop in the image below.
Xylochrome Film Recipe Settings
| Film Simulation | Classic Chrome |
| Grain Effect | Off |
| Col. Chr. Effect | Strong |
| Col. Chr. Blue | Off |
| White Balance | 5430K, +2 Red, +1 Blue |
| Dynamic Range | DR200 |
| Highlights | 0 |
| Shadows | ‑1 |
| Colour | ‑2 |
| Sharpness | ‑3 |
| ISO N.R. | ‑4 |
| Clarity | ‑5 |
| EV Comp. | 0 |
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