Film simulation recipe for CineStill 400d on X100V, X-T4, X-E4 and X-S10 cameras
Always on trend (!) I’ve been enjoying Threads as a way to follow and engage with photographers. I follow a good spread of digital and film photographers, including several that shoot landscapes and urban nostalgia.
Today, I saw a simple set of images of a decaying family car by @douglasrhall parked on the lawn of what looks to me like an urban neighbourhood home typical of American industrial cities.
These shots were taken on CineStill 400D film, which has a wonderfully earthy and nostalgic tone. These two adjectives are also linked with Eterna Cinema simulation on our cameras, so that’s what I’ve used for this attempt to mimic the look.
In Doug’s images, the weather is cloudy, so I matched up the tones on some grey day and hazy sunlight samples. There’s a strongly cinematic mood in the resulting images. The look becomes different (and wonderful) in sunlight, and has a creamy softness in the golden hour. All in all, a success, and I had fun developing this recipe for CineStill 400D. I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
CineStill 400D Film Recipe
- Simulation: Eterna/Cinema
- Grain Effect: Weak, Small
- Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
- Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
- White Balance: Fluorescent 1
- WB Shift: -2 Red, -2 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR200
- Highlights: -2.0
- Shadows: +1.0
- Color: -1
- Sharpness: -3
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: -3
- EV compensation: +1/3
More CineStill and Similar Looks
This is a popular film stock, both for actual 35mm shooting, but also amongst film recipe creators and fans. There are a couple of 400D recipes already out there, and a number of other looks that are visually similar to the aesthetic in the sample images. Here are a few to explore, covering a range of interpretations of 400D …
- CineStill 400D v1 – first of two from Ritchie Roesch
- CineStill 400D v2 – a second version on Fuji X Weekly
- Eterna 250D – soft tones by Piotr Skrzypek
- Aerocolor Lomo – expired tones in a similar style to 400D
- Arthouse Cinema – a sophisticated Eterna look
- Expired Geographic – similar vibes to this 400D
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 