Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Classic Negative film simulation recipe for X100V, X100VI and compatible cameras

One of the observations made about Classic Negative in it’s unadjusted form is that greens can appear to have a blue tint to them. Correcting this is often one of the first steps taken by recipe makers, and I’ve done my share of this as well. However, what if we embraced this and worked with it and went all out for Classic Negative greens?

In this recipe, I wanted to specifically work with the colours of a pine forest, where there were already lots of green to capture. I’ve used a colour balance setting of Shade/Cloudy, with a -2, +4 shift. This doesn’t produce greens that are obviously blue, such as with Blue Monday, Glacier Blue or Fujicolor Natura, for example, but works to bring out a rich green tone, that is slightly cool in balance.

This recipe will of course take any type of picture, and the settings can be really great fun, but my intention was to produce something most useful in amongst pines, cedars, spruces and moody forests.

Spruce Goose Film Recipe

• Simulation: Classic Negative
• Grain Effect: Weak, Large
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Weak (IV) / Off (V)
• White Balance: Shade
• WB Shift: -2 Red, +4 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Highlights: -1.5
• Shadows: -0.5
• Color: -2
• Sharpness: +1
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: 0
• EV compensation: 0