Every Fujifilm recipe, film by film
Each recipe traced back to the film it emulates and the datasheet it came from. Filter by whose film it is, what kind of film, which simulation it sits on, or how fast the stock is. The reasoning is here in full. The settings are in the packs.
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…
KodakColour slideClassic Chrome
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):
KodakColour negativeClassic Chrome
AP's Superia
The AP set had a gap and an objection sitting on top of it.
FujifilmColour negativeClassic Chrome
AP's UltraMax
A personal UltraMax 400 build tuned for Indian skin tones and the Mumbai colour palette, the two things a standard UltraMax recipe handles worst.
KodakColour negativeClassic Chrome
Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100
Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 is a fine-grain ISO 100 B&W film famous for the smoothest tonality, near-invisible grain, superb sharpness, and reciprocity (long…
FujifilmBlack and whiteAcros
Ilford Delta 100
Ilford Delta 100 Professional, a medium-speed, fine-grain B&W film built on core-shell tabular (T-grain) crystal technology, the same emulsion family…
IlfordBlack and whiteAcros
Ilford Delta 3200
Ilford Delta 3200 Professional, the brand's flagship high-speed push stock. The datasheet (archived: reference-sources/datasheets/ilford/delta-3200.pdf)…
IlfordBlack and whiteAcros
Ilford Delta 400
Ilford Delta 400 Professional, a fast, fine-grain B&W film on the same core-shell tabular (T-grain) crystal technology as Delta 100 and Delta 3200…
IlfordBlack and white
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…
IlfordBlack and whiteAcros
Ilford HP5 Plus 400
Ilford HP5 Plus 400 is the classic British medium-speed B&W, the reportage/documentary counterpart to Tri-X.
IlfordBlack and white
Ilford Ortho Plus 80
Filter factors, and note that they invert between light sources:
IlfordBlack and whiteAcros
Ilford Pan F Plus 50
Ilford Pan F Plus, the slowest film in Ilford's current range (true ISO 50). The datasheet (archived: reference-sources/datasheets/ilford/pan-f-plus.pdf)…
IlfordBlack and white
Ilford SFX 200
Filter factors, from the sheet:
IlfordBlack and whiteAcros
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…
IlfordBlack and white
Kodak Tri-X 400
Kodak Tri-X 400 is the most iconic B&W film in history, the stock of classic photojournalism and street photography.
KodakBlack and white
Free, in full
Kodak 2383 Print
Kodak Vision 2383 is the colour release-print film most cinema prints are struck on. The camera negative (e.g. Vision3) is low-contrast.
KodakCinema stock
Kodak Double-X 5222
Eastman Double-X Negative Film 5222/7222, in continuous production since 1959, making it one of the longest-lived film stocks in history.
KodakCinema stock
Kodak Ektachrome 100D
Kodak Ektachrome 100D Color Reversal Film (5294/7294) is a positive/reversal motion-picture stock.
KodakCinema stockEterna
Kodak Vision3 200T
The full exposure-index table, which is unusually complete for any datasheet in this archive:
KodakCinema stockEterna
Kodak Vision3 250D
Kodak Vision3 250D (5207 cine / 7207 16mm) is the daylight-balanced medium-speed ECN-2 motion-picture negative, "all the beauty of daylight." It carries…
KodakCinema stock
Kodak Vision3 500T
Kodak Vision3 500T (5219/7219) is the tungsten-balanced (3200K), high-speed (EI 500) ECN-2 motion-picture negative, the workhorse of night and interior…
KodakCinema stock
Kodak Vision3 50D
Kodak Vision3 50D (5203/7203) is the slowest, finest-grained member of the Vision3 family.
KodakCinema stock
Free, in full
BewareMyVelvia (Bold)
Tom Baumgaertel (@bewaremyfuji) is known for bold, saturated Velvia work, frequently using in-camera multiple exposure.
FujifilmDesigned lookVelvia
Bleach Bypass Noir
Bleach bypass (also skip bleach, ENR, silver retention) is a real photochemical technique, and understanding it explains every setting in this recipe.
Original designDesigned lookEterna Bleach Bypass
Clay Season
Muted earth tones: browns, tans, terracotta, clay, ochre. Warm in hue, restrained in saturation.
Original designDesigned lookNostalgic Neg
Clean Girl
The "clean girl" aesthetic is a specific, well-defined visual language that emerged from beauty and lifestyle social content: white-dominant, minimal…
Original designDesigned lookClassic Chrome
Free, in full
Cold Open
Cool, desaturated, contained. Trade commentary describes the current mood palette as "subtle desaturation for tension" This is that, built as a camera…
Original designDesigned look
Fashion Editorial ("Vogue")
A fashion editorial page has a consistent, learnable set of visual properties, and they are not the properties of a flattering snapshot:
Original designDesigned lookEterna Bleach Bypass
Golden Hour Glow
Golden hour has recognisable optical properties, and they go beyond "warm":
KodakDesigned lookClassic Chrome
Matte Editorial
The look this recipe targets has a name in publishing, the Kinfolk / minimalist lifestyle aesthetic that dominated independent magazines…
Original designDesigned lookEterna Bleach Bypass
Pastel Dream
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 than…
Original designDesigned lookClassic Chrome
Silent Atlas
A cinematic documentary teal-and-warm travel-film grade, derived from studying Merlin Krumme's The Silent Atlas (2026), a short film shot in the Atlas…
Original designDesigned lookClassic Chrome
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…
Original designDesigned look
Fujicolor Pro 400H
Fujifilm's flagship professional colour negative (discontinued 2021 in 35mm, 2022 in 120), for over a decade the default choice for wedding and portrait…
FujifilmColour negative
Fujicolor Superia X-Tra 400
Fujifilm's iconic consumer colour negative, the green-boxed Superia X-Tra 400 that defined "the Fuji look" for a generation of point-and-shoot and travel…
FujifilmColour negativeClassic Neg
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.
FujifilmColour slideVelvia
Kodachrome 64
Kodak's daylight exposure table for Kodachrome 64:
KodakColour slide
Kodak ColorPlus 200
Kodak ColorPlus 200 is a daylight-balanced (≈5500 K) ISO 200 C-41 colour negative film, sold in 35 mm only.
KodakColour negative
Ektachrome E100
Kodak Professional Ektachrome E100 (2018 revival of the E100G lineage. Original Ektachrome discontinued 2013).
KodakColour slidePROVIA
Kodak Ektar 100
Kodak Professional Ektar 100, "the world's finest grain color negative film" per Kodak's own datasheet (pub.
KodakColour negative
Kodak Gold 200
A warm, softly-faded, low-contrast daylight look with amber-leaning colour, gentle highlights, and visible fine grain. Sunny-day nostalgia.
KodakColour negativeClassic Chrome
Free, in full
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Professional Portra 400 (current emulsion 2010→, T-GRAIN). The modern professional portrait negative, the sheet (pub.
KodakColour negativeClassic Chrome
Free, in full
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.
KodakColour negativeClassic Chrome
Mumbai (General)
Fetched from Wikimedia Commons (analysis-only), spanning dusk, harsh sun, haze, night, indoor festival, and street:
Original designDesigned lookClassic Neg
Mumbai Monsoon
Mumbai's monsoon presents a specific and difficult set of conditions, and the grade is engineered against each one:
Original designDesigned lookClassic Neg
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 here transfers to them unchanged. X-Trans IV bodies (X-T4, X-S10, X-S20, X-E4, X-Pro3, X-T30 II and X100V) need the one documented conversion. Full camera compatibility.
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Settings, movie-mode translations, and the datasheet evidence for every recipe above.