Tag: Reala Ace

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

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

• Simulation: Reala Ace
• Grain Effect: Weak, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
• White Balance: 5500K
• WB Shift: -2 Red, -2 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR400
• Highlights: 0.0
• Shadows: -1.0
• Color: +3
• Sharpness: 0
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: 0
• EV compensation: +1/3

This recipe uses Reala Ace, which is not available on older cameras. In this case, you can try the recipe settings with Provia and Color +2, or Pro Neg Hi and Color +4.

Reala Ace film simulation recipe for trips and travel with X100VI, XT-5 and X-S20

When travel takes you to new places, it’s exciting to take photos of different scenes and in new environments. Sometimes, you can’t predict quite what you’ll find so you need a versatile film recipe with natural colour and an easy to use setting so you can capture whatever you come across with confidence.

I’ve given this recipe a try out in high mountains (where it was originally developed and gained its name), at a sporting event in very harsh light, and around the countryside and coast near where I live.

This film recipe uses the Reala Ace film simulation that is present on the newset cameras in the Fujifilm X-Series line up. This look is now the most naturally neutral of all the simulations, presenting colours with little variation from what our eyes percieve. It still has a film like feel, but is a less obviously Fujifilm look that other simulations.

I enjoy working with Reala Ace as a recipe base, especially for natural scenes and images including blue skies. Although I take few photos of people. it’s also a reliable choice for capturing faces and natural looking skin tones, which again gives it points for versatility and safety in varied situations.

Mountaineer Film Recipe

• Simulation: Reala Ace (try Provia as an alternative on older cameras)
• Grain Effect: Weak, Small
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
• White Balance: Fluorescent 2
• WB Shift: -2 Red, -4 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Highlights: -1.0
• Shadows: -1.0
• Color: -4
• Sharpness: +2
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: 0
• EV compensation: +1/3