The bank, film by film

AP's Kodachrome

Flagged as the obvious next build at the end of AP's Portra. The argument there: Portra is the right film for people, but if the question is what the.

AP's Portra

Five Portra-family recipes live in this bank. Checked against Kodak E-4050 (Portra 400, Jan 2025) and E-4040 (Portra 800):

AP's UltraMax

UltraMax's reputation is "warm, punchy, grainy drugstore film," and the reference recipe delivers exactly that: Color —, Clarity —, Grain —/—, Shadow.

Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100

Confirmed traits → settings: ultra-fine grain → Grain —/—; smooth wide tonality + held highlights → — + Highlight —; rich detailed blacks → Shadow.

Ilford Delta 100

How the Ilford Delta 100 Fujifilm recipe was derived.

Ilford Delta 3200

How the Ilford Delta 3200 Fujifilm recipe was derived.

Ilford Delta 400

How the Ilford Delta 400 Fujifilm recipe was derived.

Ilford FP4 Plus 125

Eight stops of usable range, weighted three-to-one toward overexposure. For comparison, against the other explicitly-quantified latitude claims in this.

Ilford HP5 Plus 400

How the Ilford HP5 Plus 400 Fujifilm recipe was derived.

Ilford Ortho Plus 80

Filter factors, and note that they invert between light sources:

Ilford Pan F Plus 50

How the Ilford Pan F Plus 50 Fujifilm recipe was derived.

Ilford SFX 200

Filter factors, from the sheet:

Ilford XP2 Super 400

Conventional black-and-white film contains silver halide crystals; development converts them to metallic silver, and grain is the clumping of those.

Kodak Tri-X 400

Design decision (documented honestly): this recipe targets the iconic pushed/reportage rendering, the Tri-X people mean when they say "Tri-X", not.

Kodak 2383 Print

Kodak's curve for 2383 has been traced from the archived datasheet. Full method, calibration and validation in the notes. The headline figures, all this.

Kodak Double-X 5222

How the Kodak Double-X 5222 Fujifilm recipe was derived.

Kodak Ektachrome 100D

How the Kodak Ektachrome 100D Fujifilm recipe was derived.

Kodak Vision3 200T

The full exposure-index table, which is unusually complete for any datasheet in this archive:

Kodak Vision3 250D

How the Kodak Vision3 250D Fujifilm recipe was derived.

Kodak Vision3 500T

How the Kodak Vision3 500T Fujifilm recipe was derived.

Kodak Vision3 50D

Both confirm the datasheet: this is the cleanest, most neutral stock in the family, no warmth to correct for, no grain to tame.

BewareMyVelvia (Bold) — Design Analysis & Derivation

Tom Baumgaertel (@bewaremyfuji) is known for bold, saturated Velvia work, frequently using in-camera multiple exposure. This recipe is an inspired-by.

Bleach Bypass Noir — Design Analysis & Derivation

Bleach bypass (also skip bleach, ENR, silver retention) is a real photochemical technique, and understanding it explains every setting in this recipe.

Clay Season

Muted earth tones: browns, tans, terracotta, clay, ochre. Warm in hue, restrained in saturation. Trade commentary on 2026 colour work names this as the.

Clean Girl — Design Analysis & Derivation

The "clean girl" aesthetic is a specific, well-defined visual language that emerged from beauty and lifestyle social content: white-dominant, minimal.

Cold Open

Cool, desaturated, contained. Trade commentary describes the current mood palette as "subtle desaturation for tension" This is that, built as a camera.

Fashion Editorial ("Vogue") — Design Analysis & Derivation

A fashion editorial page has a consistent, learnable set of visual properties, and they are not the properties of a flattering snapshot:

Golden Hour Glow — Design Analysis & Derivation

Golden hour has recognisable optical properties, and they go beyond "warm":

Matte Editorial — Design Analysis & Derivation

The look this recipe targets has a name in publishing, the Kinfolk / minimalist lifestyle aesthetic that dominated independent magazines and.

Pastel Dream — Design Analysis & Derivation

A pastel is not a desaturated colour. That is the mistake almost every attempt at this look makes, and it produces something washed-out and sad rather.

Silent Atlas

This is the "teal-and-orange" cinematic split expressed through Moroccan earth tones rather than Hollywood neon.

Sun Bleached

Cyan sky and water over warm skin and earth, bright and slightly washed. This is the complementary split that trade sources call the most widely used.

Fujicolor Pro 400H

How the Fujicolor Pro 400H Fujifilm recipe was derived.

Fujicolor Superia X-Tra 400

Important nuance: don't assume Reggie's Superia behaves like his versatile, adaptive Reggie's Portra just because they share an author and an Auto-WB.

Fujichrome Fortia SP

Fortia was a deliberate excess. Fujifilm already had Velvia, the most saturated mainstream slide film in the world, and built something louder. Colour.

Kodachrome 64

Kodak's daylight exposure table for Kodachrome 64:

Kodak ColorPlus 200

Kodak ColorPlus 200 is a daylight-balanced (≈5500 K) ISO 200 C-41 colour negative film, sold in 35 mm only. For most of its life it was a non-US-market.

Ektachrome E100

Cultural register: the National Geographic slide of the 1990s–2000s. Clean, honest, slightly cool documentary colour (color-science: Classic Chrome cousin.

Kodak Ektar 100

Both confirm the datasheet: saturated-but-neutral-balanced colour, very fine grain, real sharpness, and more contrast/punch than a forgiving portrait.

Kodak Gold 200

How the Kodak Gold 200 Fujifilm recipe was derived.

Kodak Portra 400

None of the three is "wrong". They answer different questions (VALIDATION-AUDIT: emulsion-faithful vs artifact-faithful). This original is the one to.

Kodak UltraMax 400

Kodak's caveat, which is part of the data and should never be dropped: "Because of the extreme range in skin color, use these values only as a guide. For.

Mumbai (General)

(A 12th "Monsoon" hit was Kashmir, not Mumbai, discarded; its cool grey-blue supports the separate Mumbai Monsoon recipe.)

Mumbai Monsoon

How the Mumbai Monsoon Fujifilm recipe was derived.