Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Prepared for a trip to Paris, a classic negative with dreamy tones

I’m a huge tennis fan, and around this site you might find recipes made for trips to tournaments such as Wimbledon (Centre Court and Kodak Portra Daily), and Barcelona (Clay Court and Pale Barca). It’s a fun exercise that I enjoy; to consider the types of photographs I might be able to take, and then to prepare a recipe to try. Similarly, these trips inspire new creations during and afterwards too.

At the time of publishing, the Paris Olympics are just around the corner and I have been lucky enough to get some tickets for the tennis event being held there at Roland Garros. I’ve been thinking about the shots I might capture. And, with warm sunny weather and creamy Paris architecture, I’ve created this dreamy Classic Negative as one of the recipes I will take along.

Of course, it’s not just limited to tennis tournaments or trips to Paris! This flexible recipe has a sunny day colour balance that will work all around the world, but especially nearer the golden hour.

It works well on any camera that includes Classic Negative, such as X100V or X100VI, the X-S10 and X-S20 or X-E4 and X-T50. Here are my sample images from the creation phase, along with scenes captured at the Olympics with this Paris 24 film recipe.

Paris 24 Film Recipe

• Simulation: Classic Negative
• Grain Effect: Weak, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Weak (IV) / Off (V)
• White Balance: 5000K
• WB Shift: +2 Red, -4 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Highlights: -2.0
• Shadows: -1.0
• Color: -1
• Sharpness: +1
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: 0
• EV compensation: +1/3

If this isn’t quite right, try the similar look of Soft Negative or sharper CN24.