Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

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

Albariño, Soft Fresh Film Recipe

A soft and cinematic film simulation look for Summer days and sunshine

Here’s a film recipe creation that started life as a glass of wine. The Albariño wine hails from Northwest Spain and Portugal and is a crisp and fresh tasting wine that I enjoy on occasion. As well as a lovely taste, it has a pale colour that is atonce cream and pale green in subtle ways. Now you begin to see where the film recipe idea is coming from, a look that in part, captures the character of this flavour and look.

At the heart of the recipe is the Eterna Cinema film simulation, which produces a lower contrast look that can be cinematic and soft look at the same time. But for this look, it’s the character of greens that with Eterna have a green brown tone which I am particularly fond of.

For this film recipe, I wanted to build on these characteristics to produce a look that I could use in a range of weather and light conditions, with warmth and nostalgia to the resulting pictures. The white balance, boosted highlights and shadows, and the use of a -2 setting for clarity, all work together towards this goal.

The result is comforting and calm, which works well for outdoor shots and my tendency to use the golden hour. It’s compatible will all X-Trans IV and V cameras, so you can give it a go on X100V or VI, X-T4 or 5 and X-T30II or 50 and many other cameras in the Fujifilm range.