Classic Chrome film simulation recipe with fine grain and slide like color
I never shot slide film during my 35mm camera days, but I was always impressed with the rich color and deep contrast. Blues in particular seemed so vivid, and I never quite managed to replicate that with negative film.
Now that I’m shooting digital with my Fujifilm X Series, I get to play at shooting in a slide film style with a film recipe with some of the same qualities.
In this film recipe, I have used Classic Chrome as the base, but have boosted the colour with a +4 setting. The colour is further enhanced by shooting at 1 stop underexposed, with the -1/3 setting. Other elements include a fine grain, DR400 for smooth highlights, and a -1 shadows setting, which keeps shadows deep but natural with the underexposure.
Slide Film 400 Film Recipe
- Simulation: Classic Chrome
- Grain Effect: Weak, Small
- Colour Chrome Effect: Strong
- Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
- White Balance: Underwater
- WB Shift: +4 Red, 0 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR400
- Highlights: +1.0
- Shadows: -1.0
- Color: +4
- Sharpness: -2
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: 0
- EV compensation: -1/3
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