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February 15, 2026

Sunset Strip E6, Lomochrome Film Recipe

Bold cosy colours and a soft dreamy look, to mimic 36 processing of Lomochrome Sunset Strip 35mm film

Sunset Strip E6

It’s no surprise that I love creating film recipes, and when challenged to match an interesting look based on real world film I am right in my element. For this film recipe, I was approached by Mark LeonHeart, one of the Fujifilm photographers that uses the Film Recipes app. He was explaining to me, how when shooting film in the past, he had chosen to cross-process Lomochrome’s Sunset Strip film, not with C41 chemicals, but E6 instead.

The charm of these 35mm scans is undeliable, with a rich yellow tone, but also softness and vintage nostalgia.

Experimenting to create the look would be a fun exercise, and it would prove interesting to see how close it was possible to get with a Fujifilm film simulation recipe.

The starting point for me was to find a colour balance that delivered a similarly bold yellow tone, and to work from that to see which film sim would match the overall feel.

Blues remained distinct, although now shifted strongly towards greens, and hints in the boat steering photo included a vibrant orange too. Challenge accepted!

My resulting film recipe captures a lot of the qualities of these images, if perhaps not as much analog softness. I applied liberal amounts of negative clarity, but if you have one, a vintage or disploable lens conversion might be a great partner.

So here are my film recipe samples, and the details for creating the look in your camera.

Sunset Strip E6 Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Negative
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Shade, 0 Red, ‑9 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR400
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	‑1
Colour	2
Sharpness	‑4
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	‑4
EV Comp.	+1/3

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November 13, 2025

Absolute Portra – My Best Kodak Portra Film Recipe

Get the Kodak Portra 400 look on your Fujifilm X100VI with this Kodak Film Simulation Recipe

Absolute Portra

The appeal of Kodak Portra 400 film is widespread and there are a variety of film recipes out there that mimic the style and general feel of this Kodak 35mm film look. I have made a number, with my personal favourite being this Kodak Portra 400 film recipe based on the Eterna film simulation.

When revieing sample images and scans of Kodak Portra, there is a fairly broad range of appearance, with some having soft shadow, some deeper and some being more saturated than others. So, whilst my Eterna recipe is based on some personal favourite photographers that I follow, there is a slightly different feel to what people perhaps expact from a Kodak Portra 400 recipe.

So, with that in mind, I have created this new look, which I call Absolute Portra. It uses the Classic Chrome film simualtion as the base, and a widely favoured +2R -5B colour balance shift. It is complimented by a small nudge towards brighter midtones with a +1/3 over exposure, set on your exposure compensation dial. The results are lovely, with a creamy tone and bright warm image that captures the essence of Kodak Portra in everyday shooting.

Absolute Portra Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Daylight, +2 Red, ‑5 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR400
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	‑1
Colour	0
Sharpness	‑2
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	‑2
EV Comp.	+1/3

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August 19, 2025

123 Chrome – Classic Kodachrome Look

A versatile film simulation recipe for landscape, travel and general photography

123 Chrome

Back again with a massive banger of a film recipe that delivers beautiful looks in fine weather for a huge range of subjects. This Classic Chrome simulation recipe presents a classic Kodak mood with definite Kodachrome vibes that come through in the colours and slightly nostalgic edge to photos taken with it. It’s fully compatible with all new and recent cameras too, so whether you have an X100VI, X-E5, X-M5, X-T50 or older camera back to the X100V, then this recipe will work really well for you.

I did my field testing on a trip to the coast, and you can see how the blues of the sky and sea have rendered. I gave the Color Chrome Blue a push to achieve this, and I love how it adds impact without looking false. This is set to weak on new cameras, and strong on older models, but you can try strong on new cameras too if you really love a deep blue.

Your other option with this recipe is to introduce grain at Weak, Small. I’ve kept things super smooth in the published settings, but for a more film like result, you can add this on if you prefer. Otherwise, enjoy the Kodachrome vibes of this sunny day workhorse, and if you like your results, do let me know.

123 Chrome Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Underwater, +1 Red, ‑2 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR400
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	‑2
Colour	3
Sharpness	0
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	0

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July 22, 2025

Spring Greens, For Natural Green Tones

Astia Film Simulation Recipe that captured Spring and Summer Greens

Spring Greens

All of a sudden, the bare bitterness of Winter has disappeared and green leaves are everywhere again. These bold and bright greens can be tricky to capture, and some film recipes make them look washed out or brown. That’s when a springtime film recipe with a focus on green tones is needed, and this one might be just the right one for your next photo session. It’s lovely in trees and woodlands, and anywhere with natural greens.

Astia is a vibrant film simulation with exciting colour and tone. With some simple adjustments, these base qualities can be steered towards a look that loves green leaves and spring and summer colours. It retains a natural feel, and adds just the right amount of warmth and contrast control. Some of this control comes from the Color Chrome Effect, but this recipe is also easy to adapt to older Fujifilm cameras that don’t have this option.

Spring Greens Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Astia/Soft
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Off
White Balance	Daylight, +1 Red, ‑3 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	1
Shadows	‑1
Colour	2
Sharpness	0
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	-1/3

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May 19, 2025

Oxygen, Fresh Air Spring Film Recipe

A bright and cheerful Reala ace film simulationrecipe, ideal for X100VI in the Spring season

Oxygen

For those of us living in the Northern hemisphere, Spring is bursting out all over and teh greens of nature are filling the landscape. In my Film Recipes App, I notice that the film recipes being set as favourites are bright and colourful, ready for capturing this Spring season. Recipes like; Arboria, QE2 and Endor, as welll as several exclusive to app users.

This inspired me to get creative and develop a brand new recipe for Spring 2025, which I am sharing with you here. It is based on Reala Ace, a simulation available in newer cameras, like hte X100VI, X-M5 and X-T5. It has wonderful colour as standard, and makes a great base for a fresh air look like this.

As always, the colour balance has been tweaked, and I also made small adjustments to the tone curve. The biggest change is a nice big blast of extra colour, with a +3 saturation setting. I hope you’ll enjoy this new recipe and will find it fun to use in the Spring and Summer seasons.

Oxygen Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Reala Ace
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	5500K, ‑2 Red, ‑2 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR400
Highlights	0
Shadows	‑1
Colour	3
Sharpness	0
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	+1/3

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April 8, 2025

Kodak Portra 400, Classic Film Recipe

Justin’s Kodak Portra 400 Film Recipe for X100V, X100VI and Fujifilm X-Series cameras

Kodak Portra 400

I’ve take a few passes at the Kodak Portra look in my experiments with film recipes. These have included my first version, Kodak Portra and a stylised variant, Kodak Portra Grainy which works well in sunny conditions. I also published Kodak Portra Daily, which was more usable in a wide range of conditions, and has a lovely film-like tone and character.

But of course, film can have a varied character, and in the hands of different photographers and in different environments the results can be different. I follow a number of film photorgaphers and film photography groups, and began to see more and more Portra photos that had a look that was softer and not as creamy as some of the other Portra recipes out there.

Inspired by these sophisticated and soft toned examples, my interpretations evolved and I published my Aged Kodak Portra recipe, a Kodak Portra 160 film recipe, and now, this revisit of the Kodak Portra 400 look. In these latest three, I have switched to Eterna as the base simulation, finding that it more accurately matched the samples that I most enjoyed.

The result of all this time and testing is my Kodak Portra 400 film recipe, with a cinematic film-like feel, lots of versatility, and a wonderful output that has a sophisticated analog vibe. I’m very pleased with it, love shooting with it, and am happy to add it to the recipe collection.

Kodak Portra 400 Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Eterna/Cinema
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Fluorescent 1, ‑2 Red, ‑4 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	0.5
Shadows	0.5
Colour	2
Sharpness	‑2
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	‑2
EV Comp.	+1/3

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December 16, 2024

Fujicolor Superia 400 Film Recipe

My recreation of the classic look of prints made with Fujicolor Superia 400 35mm film

Fujicolor Superia 400

As I approach the milestone of 300 film recipes added to this site, I have been looking again at some of the iconic 35mm film looks that inspired the Fujifilm film simulations. Whilst the Classic Negative simulation isn’t explicitly described as a mimic for Fujicolor Superia, there is a strong likeness, espeically to prints from Superia film dating back 20 or more years.

I’ve reviewed my earlier takes on this aesthetic, such as my original Fujicolor Superia, Fujicolor Daily and the somewhat divergent Mother Superia.

Each of these is perfectly fine for exploring this style, but each is in a way a characature of the film look, expressing one feature of another. In this take, I have tried to present a recipe that is just that is closer to reality, perhaps more subtle, and bit more usable in a wide range of conditions.

Fujicolor Superia 400 Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Negative
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Blue	Off
White Balance	Auto, 0 Red, ‑4 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR400
Highlights	0
Shadows	‑1
Colour	2
Sharpness	‑1
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	+1/3

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December 6, 2024

Eastman Color, Early Kodak 35mm Film

Kodak Color Film inspired film simulation recipe, based on Classic Chrome

Eastman Color

The color prints that you see from early Kodak color film have a distinctive nostalgic quality that places them in their era. I love the aesthetic of these early photos, and hope that one day we will get a new film simulation that takes us back to these inspiring adventerous times.

In prints from this time, you often see strong blues in particular, with vivid blue eyes, bold skies and a general striking richness. Things didn’t look perfectly natural, but instead had a unique vibe that was possibly futuristic at the time, but nowadays is much more retro and charming.

In this film simulation recipe, I have tried to bring as much of this look as I can to a Classic Chrome set-up. It’s by no means a complete match, but I have very much enjoyed creating it, and testing it out on a variety of subjects. True to the plan, blues are vivid and striking, and the nostalgic feel is there, with an aged rendering of other colours. This means that it is better suited to more colourful scenes and might be fun when the subject is also from the 50s, 60s or 70s.

Eastman Color Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Blue	Off
White Balance	Fluorescent 3, ‑5 Red, ‑7 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR100
Highlights	1
Shadows	‑1
Colour	0
Sharpness	0
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	‑3
EV Comp.	0

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September 30, 2024

Alpenchrome, Classic Chrome for Hikes

Classic Chrome film recipe for X-Trans IV and V cameras, with a Kodak look for outdoor photography

Alpenchrome

Whilst I like the beach and ocean as much as the next person, I live close to one, and so for vacations I often go to the mountains. In September, I took a trip to the Tirol, a mountainous region of Austria. I prepared a number of film recipes to take on my travels, trying to predict which settings would compliment the green meadows and blue skies of the high mountains.

I was sure that at least one of my recipes should be based on Classic Chrome, and this is the one that I came up with. I feel that it uses the teal tones of Classic Chrome in a subtle way, and balances this with the green of the lush meadows and forests.

I’ve given it a whirl on some RAW files from an earlier visit to the Barcelona tennis tournament, and some of the local lanes and fields near where I live. All-in-all, I’m pleased with the recipe, giving a consistent and controlled look that is distinctly Fujifilm, but with an analog softness to the tone that also feels reminiscent of Kodak 35mm. Although designed for the mountains, it’s a go everywhere film recipe for sunny conditions.

Alpenchrome Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	6000K, ‑3 Red, +3 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	0
Shadows	‑1
Colour	‑1
Sharpness	‑2
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	0

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