NaroLabs
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. Every one is published in full, free, with the working shown.
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Start here — every setting, free
The six the bank is judged by, published whole: every value, the reasoning, and the datasheet each one came from. Shoot one and see whether the rest are worth having.
AP's Kodachrome
An original targeting Kodachrome 64, the stock that made the world's picture of India.
Free, in full
Kodak T-Max 400 (Ektapan 400)
Research-backed original, derived from Kodak's own datasheet (archived, publication F-4043, February 2016).
Free, in full
Open Air
An original design for the Impressionist daylight look: no black anywhere in the frame, shadows that carry colour instead of losing it, violet in the darks…
Free, in full
Raking Light
An original design for hard tenebrism: one high source raking across the subject, flesh that runs hot where the light lands, and a ground that keeps no…
Free, in full
Revival House
The 1970s picture as a 2026 production department reconstructs it: warm, un-crisp, softly printed at both ends, colour that sits down rather than announces…
Free, in full
Kodachrome 64
Research-backed original, re-derived from the Kodak E-55 datasheet (archived, June 2009 revision).
Free, in full
New additions
The most recent recipes to land in the bank, newest first. The ones marked free are published whole — every value and the reasoning behind it.
Salon Light
An original design for the warm society portrait: a deep black under a bright white, skin and silk carrying the whole palette, and not one pixel of green…
Divided Light
An original design for the Neo-Impressionist daylight look: the same lifted, no-black tone scale as Open Air with the shadows deliberately cooled, violet…
Raking Light
An original design for hard tenebrism: one high source raking across the subject, flesh that runs hot where the light lands, and a ground that keeps no…
Pink Chrome
An original design for the mid-2000s aspirational-luxury register: hot pink over gold over deep black, spray-tanned skin, bedazzled surfaces, gloss…
Open Air
An original design for the Impressionist daylight look: no black anywhere in the frame, shadows that carry colour instead of losing it, violet in the darks…
Chrome Yellow
An original design for the high-chroma yellow-through-green register: the most saturated corpus measured in this bank, built on a palette that runs…
Specimen Plate
An original design for the encyclopedia photograph: one object on a pale sweep under even light, lit for identification rather than for mood, with colour…
Reading Room
An original design for the upscale tungsten interior of the late 1980s and early 1990s: mahogany and brass under warm practicals, staged objects on…
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The bank, film by film
Every original, 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.
Artist series
Recipes that start from paintings by Monet, Van Gogh, Caravaggio, Signac and Sargent instead of a film datasheet, each measured as a corpus.
NaroLabs on YouTube
Watch the recipes get made on camera, plus postcard-style films.
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.
All of it, free
Every recipe in the bank publishes in full: each value, the movie-mode version, and the datasheet evidence behind the grade. Nothing is held back, and support is what keeps it that way.