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Fujifilm recipes, derived from the datasheets

Most film simulation recipes are settings someone liked, passed on with a name attached. These start from the manufacturer's own datasheet for a film stock, read its characteristic curves and grain figures, and translate those into in-camera settings. The flagship recipes are then checked against real film scans.

45recipes, fully explained

33knowledge articles

X-T5and every X-Trans V body

A red double-decker bus and a black-and-yellow taxi on a near-empty Mumbai street at first light, a domed heritage building behind them

A floodlit neoclassical pediment at night, its carved crest above lettering reading Fort Heritage, in high-contrast black and white

The curved blue-and-white corner tower of an Art Deco hotel against a pale, clouded sky

Low sun flaring down a narrow alley between two buildings, reflected in the puddles on the wet ground, in black and white

A black-and-yellow taxi parked on a rain-soaked street below a stone colonial facade screened by trees

A dust-covered car left between two others on a leaf-strewn street, in black and white

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The bank, film by film

All 45 originals, each traced back to the film it emulates and the datasheet it came from.

The knowledge layer

33 articles on what every in-camera control does, and the chemistry underneath the look.

NaroLabs on YouTube

Watch the recipes get made on camera, plus postcard-style films.

The writing

Longer essays on colour science and why film cannot be faked in post.

Which cameras

Built and validated on the X-T5. The X100VI, X-H2 and X-T50 use the identical X-Trans CMOS 5 HR sensor, so every recipe transfers to them unchanged. X-Trans IV bodies need one documented adjustment.

The settings are the product

Everything explaining how these looks were built is free to read here. The values themselves, the movie-mode versions and the datasheet evidence are in the packs.

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