Black and white film recipes using Acros and Monochrome simulations
There are already excellent choices for pure black and white photography with your Fujifilm X-Series camera. For this reason, and as a practitioner of atmospheric toned mono photography, I have focussed on toned mono film recipes. These include warm and cool toned versions, plus some with stronger colour influence.
Of course, you can skip that setting, and turn any of my recipes into pure black and white.
Fujifilm’s Acros and Monochrome simulations are among the best black and white profiles available in any digital camera. Acros — inspired by the legendary Neopan Acros 100 film — is the more refined of the two, with exceptionally smooth grain, deep blacks and a tonal rendering that rewards strong light and careful composition. Monochrome is a slightly more flexible base, available across a wider range of camera bodies and well suited to toned and filtered looks.
Both come in filter variants (R, Ye, G for Monochrome; Standard, Red, Yellow, Green for Acros) which shift the tonal relationship between colours. These recipes span the full range from clean and clinical to grainy and atmospheric — there’s a mono recipe here for most moods and subjects.
These mono recipes cover both Acros and Monochrome simulations, drawn from the site and the Film Recipes App and ranked by user popularity. The app holds a larger mono collection than the site — app-only recipes are included and labelled throughout.
Monotone and Black & White Film Recipes
These are the highest-rated recipes from the site and app combined. There are a further 24 recipes in this category exclusively in the Film Recipes App — browse them alongside the full library of 800+ recipes on iOS and Android.