Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Nostalgic, soft tone and vintage film recipes using Fujifilm film simulations

Superia Loco, Fujifilm Low Contrast Recipe

Soft tones Fujicolor Superia look made with Classic Negative on X-Trans IV

My very first film recipe creation was a Classic Negative film simulation recipe called Soft Negative, which has remained a favourite of mine ever since. It has a softness and warmth that suits my photography style, and the retro elements of the Classic Negative simulation.

In all the film recipes that I’ve produced since, I’ve not quite eclipsed this early one as a favourite. There have been some close seconds, like Kojak Gold, my 200th recipe, and Childhood Vacation with a washed out look that’s great fun to use.

However, I think at last, I might have a new favourite film recipe. It’s made with Classic Negative again and packed full of the character and style that I love. May I present to you, Superia Loco, a low contrast Fujiilm Superia look. It’s my new no. 1 and I really hope that you enjoy it too.

Soft tones and flattened contrast, that’s the vibe with Superia Loco

Superia Loco Film Recipe

  • Simulation: Classic Negative
  • Grain Effect: Weak, Small
  • Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
  • Colour Chrome Blue: Weak (IV) / Off (V)
  • White Balance: 4800K
  • WB Shift: +3 Red, -3 Blue
  • Dynamic Range: DR200
  • Highlights: -2.0
  • Shadows: -2.0
  • Color: -2
  • Sharpness: -2
  • ISO Noise Reduction: -4
  • Clarity: 0
  • EV compensation: +1/3

📷 Take a look at more images with Superia Loco in the User Photo Gallery!

Small fishing boat with aged red paintwork, Superia Loco film recipe
This one is freshly painted, captured wit Superia Loco film recipe
I love exploring the fields here in Hampshire. Superia Loco film recipe
Golden hour in the wheatfields, with Superia Loco film recipe
Taking a forest walk, with Superia Loco
Glorious greens in cloudy conditions. Superia Loco film recipe
A golden afternoon on the track, Superia Loco film recipe
Beech nuts growing by the path, Superia Loco film recipe
Floral highlights of a garden show, Superia Loco film recipe
Superia Loco film recipe is a perfect choice on a misty or grey day
Red admiral butterly (above), Painted lady buttlerfly (below)
Summer butterflies, taken with the Superia Loco film recipe
Grey winter weather is no barrier to fun with the Superia Loco film recipe
Fujicolor Superia vibes, captured with the Superia Loco film recipe
Looking through the leaves, backlit by the sun. Superia Loco recipe
Spring leaves sometimes start brown, turning green later
Reds, browns and creams, captured with Superia Loco film recipe
Even weeds look great in golden hour, Superia Loco film recipe
Future blackberries inthe hedgerow, Superia Loco film recipe
Talking a walk on a cloudy day, with Superia Loco film recipe
Suitable for wet and dry days, rain and shine. Superia Loco film recipe

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8 responses to “Superia Loco, Fujifilm Low Contrast Recipe”

  1. I like it, too! (But sometimes I have to tone down the green a little by adjusting WB shift). I tend to like this pastel-ish look and of course, Classic Neg. C5 and C7 have a similar style)

    Current slots:

    C0-TROPICANA (XTRANS4, JUSTIN) – keeping returning to this one and Restore From Backup
    C1-PACIFIC BLUES
    C2-CINEPLUS (XTRANS4, JUSTIN)
    C3-CLASSIC GOLD (XTRANS4, JUSTIN)
    C4-KOJAK GOLD (XTRANS4, JUSTIN)
    C5-KODAK PORTRA 800 v2 (XTRANS4)
    C6-MELATONIN (TENG) – in use since posted!
    C7-FUJICOLOR SUPER HG v2

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  2. Even though the area is small, the light is different in each direction and at any angle.

    1. Heather in the wild: https://i.imgur.com/NZHyXsb.jpg
    2. Foot path through the heather: https://i.imgur.com/d5h3oLx.jpg
    3. Dead tree: https://i.imgur.com/9sm1xjF.jpg
    4. More dead trees: https://i.imgur.com/Lv6zDaK.jpg
    5. Track behind the heather: https://i.imgur.com/mjogdYC.jpg
    6. Lone dead tree (cows nearby): https://i.imgur.com/U8K9dTh.jpg
    7. Alone in the woods: https://i.imgur.com/HsFUdZe.jpg
    8. Flower field (Reala-esque? Rumoured to be Fuji’s new film sim): https://i.imgur.com/im7k7ef.jpg
    9. Small copper (Lycaenia phlaeas): https://i.imgur.com/0L56RHB.jpg

    Cheers

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  3. A nice recipe, thank you very much. But I miss the ISO information in all your recipes, for example “up to ISO 6400”
    Best Regards
    Johann

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    • Thanks, Johann. The most important ISO setting is to be high enough to allow the DR of the recipe, but I let the photographer have the freedom apart from that. In my photography, I control the aperture as the main creative element, and tend to let the camera pick an ISO for me.

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