Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Experimental film silmulation recipe for damaged, over exposed, expired film

When you review some old prints, perhaps from around the 1950s or 1960s, they are a pale imitation of their former selves. In this extreme look film recipe, the washed out, discoloured look of heavily aged print is reproduced.

Although it is something of a novelty, some images do look quite interesting with it, such as simple winter images. But for the most part, this recipe is destructive, capturing instead a feeling of distant memories of handed down prints.

This recipe is based on Classic Chrome, which is pushed hard into a burned out state with an exposure compensation of +1 (or 3 stops) and a +3 highlights setting. The intention is to destroy the brighter parts of the image, so do be sure to push this firmly into brighter territory.

Best Before Film Recipe

• Simulation: Classic Chrome
• Grain Effect: Strong, Large
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Off
• White Balance: Fluorescent 3
• WB Shift: +2 Red, +3 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR100
• Highlights: +3.0
• Shadows: -1.0
• Color: -3
• Sharpness: -4
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: +3
• EV compensation: +1 (over expose by three stops or more)

Expired Film Recipes

There are a number of different characteristics to expired film photos, including a loss of contrast and all manner of changes to colour fidelity. These colour casts quite often define the expired look, and can range from blues and greens for freshly printed images from out of date film, through to pinks and purples of prints that themseleves have aged and lost their colour. Here’s a selection of other expired recipes to explore this aethetic.

• Aged Kodak Portra – Kodak Portra with a subtle expired tone
• Decade Print – Like aged Fujicolor prints
• Expired Geographic – An expired look for nature photos
• Expired 400 Film – A carry around recipe for an expired look
• Classic Gold – Aged and faded Kodak Gold film
• Childhood Vacation – Like snaps from an old family album
• Expired Film 66 – a classic Expired Film look
• Aerocolor Lomo – Expired kodak film stock with a green cast
• Expired ECN-2 – Teal tones expired film from Fuji X Weekly