Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Nostalgic classic negative film simulation recipe, like Kodak Gold prints

Kojak Gold. It’s a cool name, right? It’s an even cooler look!

It’s true that I get a silly amount of personal satisfaction from some of the film recipe names that I dream up. Hot on the heels of some of my other favourites, like Mother Superia, Karmachroma, Waldorf Astia and Flatpack is this new name for a retro Kodak film look. What could be more 70s than Kojak?

Living up to it’s name, this recipe looks to produce a nostalgic look based on Kodak Gold film, with a feel like 35mm prints from this popular film stock. It’s based on Classic Negative (which means newer cameras only, sorry), and uses a warm gold-like colour shift and a generally soft set-up, including negative clarity and reduced sharpness.

The results are warm and film-like, with a soft feel and nostalgic print style look. The nostalgic elements come through in sunshine, but the recipe is a good choice for a film like look in all conditions. I took it on holiday with me and it became an instant favourite. I’m sure that you will love it too.

Did you know? This is film recipe 200 on this website. Who knew there would be so many film recipe styles that our cameras could produce?

Kojak Gold Film Recipe

• Simulation: Classic Negative
• Grain Effect: Weak, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Off
• Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
• White Balance: Auto
• WB Shift: +3 Red, -6 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR400
• Highlights: -0.5 (or -1 if your Fuji doesn’t do -0.5)
• Shadows: -1.5 (or -1 if your Fuji doesn’t do -1.5)
• Color: +1
• Sharpness: -1
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: -2
• EV compensation: +1/3

This film recipe was part of our Film Recipes Challenge, with photographers from all around the world sharing images. Take a look and their selections in the Kojak Gold user gallery!

You can see more samples of Kojak Gold in Goughie’s review of some favourite film recipes so far in 2023. Take a look on his YouTube.

More Gold Looks

Kodak Gold was one the best selling films for several decades, and I’ve no doubt that many millions of photos were taken with it. In our world, we can also enjoy the Kodak Gold look as often as we like with Kojak Gold and other film recipes.

• Kodak Gold – my version of this film look
• Gold Standard – capture Kodak Gold with Pro Neg Std simulation
• Classic Gold – an expired film look based on Kodak Gold images
• Fujicolor Gold – a hybrid Fuji-Kodak gold negative style

We can extend the ‘gold’ theme further with these warm golden looks …

• Goldeneye – warm and rich tones with Classic Negative
• Muted Gold – a soft and pale golden look
• Heart of Gold – perfect for the golden hour
• Gold v2 – a different view of Kodak Gold by Ritchie Roesch