I'm ALL about the recipes. I live in my 7 presets and shoot Jpeg + RAW exclusively. Like you said, I'm old enough that I feel like I'm done sitting in front of a computer editing shot after shot for hours on end. I get great results right out of camera. I might crop. I might do a curves layer. Boom! I'm done.
Kudos to you for citing sources and inspirations of the recipes you featured. Another UA-camr, Gajan, posted a video wherein he didn't credit recipes lifted (not credited) from Kevin Mullins and other Fujifilm photographers. Thank you for being informative, thorough, honest and inspiring. Be safe and prosperous.
If you don't know Bill Fortney, he is a Pulitzer Prize winner, NASA trainer, Pro sports shooter, and landscape guru...he only shoots jpegs. In an interview with FujiLove, he discussed how he shoots the image in three different simulations and then selects from them. Building recipes is something I think I will checkout...thanks Andrew.
Yes, you can do that with bracketing and choose three built in sims. I still haven’t found a way to use my custom sims with bracketing but maybe with Fuji Raw X Studio?
It is game changing. i am loving my X-Pro3 even more now. JPG rocks for me, especially now that I am using Adobe Creative Cloud, which charges me per GB...
As someone who's been shooting since the 1960's, I shot a bit of Kodachrome 64 and I think Fuji's "Classic Chrome" is much closer to Ektachrome than Kodachrome. Ektachrome is like Kodachrome, but less warm and bluer. I still have some Kodachrome in my freezer (along with other films I saved when I switched to digital 20 years ago) ...
I've had my Fujifilm xt-1 voor a week now and it's amazing. I don't have a fuji glass on it for it's over my budget. So I'm using the minolta md 50mm f2. I'm loving the results!!
I found Ritchie’s website this morning and then ya’ll post this! It’s a sign that recipes are calling my name. Thanks so much for your thoughts on these!
So glad you made this video Andrew! I LOVE Richies Portra 400, Kodachrome 64, and Tri-x sims. It’s nice to see the simulation of the film in the viewfinder. Oh yeah!!! You’re right us Fuji shooters many of us came from film. I later left Sony for Fuji all because it brings back the romance of analog photography. The film simulations are the icing on the cake after having all the dials and tactile feel of shooting. I still feel a connection to legacy photography and everything analog shooting Fuji. It really gives you the best of both worlds. Fuji cameras really grow on you. Thanks again for all your Fuji videos and thanks for being loyal to this Fuji community. You didn’t fall for Sony for more clicks and leave like some former Fuji you tubers did. Thanks!
I’ve been aware of Fuji recipes since I got my first Fuji in 2013 and have been using them since over the years. It’s so much fun to come up with a cool in camera look and do minor adjustments in post. Back then the “DSLR pros” would think I’m shooting film and were blown away when I would share my jpegs with them out of camera but at that time they were too proud to make the switch because mirrorless at that time was like a toy camera in their eyes.
I still shoot with an X-E1 that I bought new back in 2013. I might upgrade soon but I also feel very proud with what I've shot on JPG using the built in settings. I will say though that I've spent a lot of time tweaking settings (and made probably 1000s of temporary shots) because I can't use Fujis studio software. I also can't use C1 or LR Fuji profiles. This is pretty much the only reason I want to upgrade to XPro! Lol.
I’ve been shooting JPEG+Raw since the holidays and I like the workflow of having JPEGs I can instantly share but having the raw to mess with when I either miss exposure a bit or want to tweak something special. Usually do Classic Chrome with a slight purple WB adjustment. Got to toy with some of the recipes since the X-T2 doesn’t have all the adjustments, but such a fun way to keep things fresh.
As a brand new Fuji shooter (x100v) experimenting with custom film profiles was next on my list of thing to learn, so this video was very timely. Having already found that the x100v has changed the way I’m shooting my street Photography it seems fitting that maybe it’s time I shifted my style and look too. Thanks for the inspiration once again and hope you and the family are staying safe 👍
Andrew & Denae love it so far, I’ve not taken the 5D out since I got it. I’ve found that it’s changed how I shoot, slowing me down. It really does feel like using a film camera. My only negative is the small size with my big hands, however once I can find and pick up a hand grip that should help.
That's why I have a fuji in the first place, for that analog feeling, can't thank you enough for this video, I'm absolutely in love with the recipes from Fuji X weekly. (Gona be honest I'm one of those guys that follow your channel for ages without subscribing for some stupid reason! but You got my subscription today sir.) Have a good one, Andrew
I looooooove shooting jpeg with my Fuji x100f. I definitely understand why people shoot in raw, and I do on occasion, but it's just nice to be able to point and shoot and what you get is what you get, and it's based off of your initial understanding of how your camera works.
I recently stumbled upon Fuji Recipes earlier today , and it suddenly got me all excited all over again, I just love how Fuji constantly makes me unravel your camera every now and again, such an evergreen exploratory machine 👍😊
One thing I'll say about all of the "film recipes" as someone that shoots almost exclusively film is that it makes zero sense to have white balance adjustment for a color negative film recipe (I know that kodachrome is slide film, so this is more of a general comment about film recipes). If you've ever scanned color negative film you know just how much editing a scanner, or inversion software does to that final image. If we're talking about lab scans then the image will be hugely influenced not just by the scanner used, but by the lab tech that is calibrating and running that scanner, and applying tweaks to the overall images. So I personally find it so silly that any color negative recipes adjust the white balance when color negative film doesn't have inherent casts to it. Slide film you could certainly make a case for since what you see is more or less what you get. Great video, and apologies for a comment that's somewhat divorced from the video itself :-P
Thank you for that recipe. The soft tones and less contrast is lovely and it replaced the Kodachrome 64 in my X100V. I already have a few high contrast, saturated recipes so this is a perfect addition.
I really like your content and the way you convey ideas so clearly and eloquently. Good job!! One thing about Kodachrome is it had a very compressed dynamic range, so shooters had to find a sweet spot when shooting.It was the film I shot every chance I get. The thing about Richie’s recipe is that the skies look more Portra than Kodachrome; the recipe, as you noted, works well in certain settings but not so well in others. And so, I’ve gone back to RAW and using presets to get me the Kodachrome look (though I have yet to find a preset that renders skin like real Kodachrome). Keep creating your great content!
I stumbled upon Ritchies recipe a while ago, might give it a go. Such an inspiration, the picture where your son is floating in the swimmingpool is powerful, and he has grown so much!
Brother, this was a revelation to me. I have done my 10,000 hours processing RAWs and I have switched to Fuji precisely to get back to basics - and a big part of that is shooting JPEGs. I hadn't even considered RAW processing applications, and certainly not Fuji's. However, this will be EXTREMELY useful for developing a few versatile recipes that I can rely on for the JPEG results that I am looking for. Thank you!
I shot Kodachrome 64 in Hong Kong, China, Thailand,The Philippines, Australia. When Fuji Velvia came out that was the end of that. K64 was almost as contrasty as lith film in sunlight. Took a week to come back from the lab - but - they are still as good as new - 40 years later. Must go through them one day
I used Kodakchrome. I loved 25 ISO colors. I tried those film simulations 2 years ago. The JPEGs rendered great under good lighting conditions. Agfachrome was great too. My least favorite was Ektachrome.
Been trying some of Ritchies recipes more and more lately. So far I haven't found any of them the hit the spot. For some reason they don't allways end up in the x-t2 as they do on the website. However the Kodachrome recipe for the x-t2 sensor combined with a fast aperture lens like kamlan a moody day in the forrest at fall makes for some really moody shots!
Great video! I've never tried Kodachrome either, but we have some old slides at home. That magic look is why I still love using my Leica M9, even if it is sloooooooow by today's standards. Superb looking jpegs straight from the camera is mildly addictive :-) And that sensor was developed by Kodak specifically to resemble Kodachrome!
Nice video. I love to read Fuji X Weekly. I almost always shoot RAW+JPEG. Most of my photography is as an enthusiast but I do occasionally shoot a paying job. When I am shooting for money I generally use your first profile as it is other most efficient and allows more flexibility. However when shooting for fun I love to pick either a recipe I have read about or one I came up with on my own and constrain myself for the entire shoot or day. Sometimes it is fun to do it with just one prime lens chosen before I start. It truly is all about the process with Fuji. Thanks for sharing and good luck on your workshops.
When I started shooting digital photography years back... I had it in JPG and always felt it was important to take it and never retouching the images and it’s why I stayed with shooting film . Great review or overview on your thoughts on this subject Andrew! Miss shooting with you!
Always a good idea to "bake" jpg in-camera as it is near impossible to replicate the simulations in post with LR or C1, even though C1 is very good. Thank you for pointing me in the direction of Ritchie Roesch. Looking forward to geek out on his recipes.
just purchased an XT3 and Im loving the jpegs and leaving the RAW for my canons, Fuji has given me my mojo back with these film simulations, but I do tweak them slightly
Awesome video. Never got the chance to use Kodachrome either, but did love Portra. I’ve been trying to emulate film for years. Saved this vid for future reference.
Such a great idea Andrew. I just found these recipes and glad I did! Very inspiring to use, almost like loading a roll of film, to me anyway. My Xpro2 seems to have a few recipes on the Fuji X Weekly site which I am trying out. I had the please in my youth to shoot with analogue including Kodachrome 64 so I am tending to favor the Kodachrome II recipe just now, also the mono TriX oh yeah and the Ilford HP5 of course, spent many a long hour in my loft darkroom with this. Anyway, nice video Andrew. Keep on inspiring! :-)
Hey Man! I'm from Phnom Penh, Cambodia where you show pictures in the video. I started to love Fuji which i never used before. But I do love film look also the simulation. thank for the video.
Thank you so much for this video! This provides great, invaluable lesson for fujifilm owners! I've always wondered how to use or what these are for. I had a bit of idea on what I'm gonna do with them but this video just made it clear for me. This only made me fall in love more with my fuji. Thank you!
Another great feature of the Fuji Digital cameras. Those recipes are or the capability of configuring the camera to do this processing in-body is fantastic.
They wrote songs about Kodachrome. It's almost like taking it away was Kodak's middle finger to digital. I'm really glad to see folks continue to try and mimic it. I shot with it in the late 1980's and the 90's. I'm not sure it can be duplicated in a way that enables it's "look" in a broad range of shooting situations. As I recall it wasn't very forgiving of exposure errors. I really miss Kodachrome, especially Steve McCurry's work with it. It was a "do everything" film. The closest thing I've been able to do is adjust exposure in RAW like usual if needed and then apply the Fuji Classic Chrome film simulation. From there I adjust the saturation sliders and boost the contrast. Classic Chrome emulates blues and especially skies almost exactly like Kodachrome but the other colors not so much. Digital photographers are obsessed with dynamic range but the 1980's Kodachrome look in Nat Geo was contrasty, saturated (but not overcooked like Velvia) and almost appeared underexposed in many cases.
Interesting. I just got my XT4, and am just beginning to dive into it. I am a video shooter, so my work is primarily in that. I think I'm going to do a series of tests baking in LUTs after seeing this and see how it all translates over there. Thank you again, from Cedar City. Love the videos!
Oh boi. Fuji colours are a godsend for video! I personally prefer classic chrome -2 colour, -4 highlights, -4 shadows and -4 sharpening. Gives me a real filmic look and it's still quite gradeable. For a commercial high key look I'd advice ProNeg Standard with everything toned down. It's gives vibrant yet subtle colours in a bright environment and is super flexible for later grading. Have fun!
Brilliant video as always. I’ve been using Richie’s Kodachrome recipes for a while, slightly modified to my tastes. Really great to see your take on this. It’s too bad the WB shift can’t be saved per custom slot as I feel that it’s the key to a lot of these looks.
The ability to use recipes is the greatest driver for me to purchase a new camera. I love my X-T1 but the number of things you can tweek is limited. I have a recipe I like for monochrome in my X-E2. So I won't switch to X-E3.
This is for real though a good thing to do for professional working photographers, Ken Rockwell for example uses Nikon for the purpose that he can push the JPG images and sell them right off camera.
@Andrew I really enjoy your videos. I played around with recipes in the past weeks and I like your Kodachrome adaption. I agree on the skin tone issues with the classic Kodachrome recipes and enjoy the modification. Keep up your style of youtube videos, I like to sit down in the afternoon with a cup of coffee and get inspired by your videos :)
I am totally with you about the desire to stop editing as much-- after using the x pro3 and xt30, I'm totally a believer in the film simulations! But holy crap, I had no idea about this recipe business. So thanks so much for putting me onto that. Hope you and fam and doing well :)
This is amazing. I learnt so much about Fuji echo system with in two weeks of watching a tone of your video. Also got the XT3 based on your review etc that really suited my style. Appreciate all that you do. Thank you.
I shot jpeg like film. Shooting RAW seems wasteful, unless I'm shooting beauty or products. I think the fuji systems work so much better this way and speeds up my work flow a ton. Its really a film camera without having to buy an develop film, once I started treating my camera like that my pictures came out 10x better.
What an awesome video along with the website Fuji X Weekly. X-T20 isn't the best for these since it can only save 3 WB shifts (although some recipes have same or close WB shifts so you can work around) and the option for CC FX Blue for instance isn't present but the outcome is very close to the great pictures presented in this video. Made shooting even more fun.
This is the reason I picked up a Fuji XE4 today. Love all the recipes Ive seen on other videos! My main camera is a Canon R6, but I have a feeling I will be using the Fuji a lot! By the way, can you set different recipes to different custom settings? Need to find out how to do that if so.
I'm just going to throw this out there for any Nikon shooters, you can do something very similar using Nikon's Picture Control Utility and you can actually create a file on your system and upload the picture profile to your camera. Fuji has some great out of the box profiles but if you wanted to you could create some nice custom profiles for your Nikon as well. I currently have a Fuji Neopan inspired black and white profile loaded on my Coolpix A. I been shooting both RAW and JPEG and I got to say the JPEGs are really really good. I have heard in the past of photographers loading up profiles to emulate those "Canon Colors" that people like. I believe canon also allows you to do something similar. I wish Fuji would allows you to create sharable profiles like Nikon does. I think you can use one of the Fuji utilities to backup your camera settings but I don't think there is a easy way to share profiles other than to manually punch in the settings.
@@roguesodyssey nikonpc.com/ is a good starting point. You can make some edits on the site but you can also download the Picture Control Utility from Nikon and load up your own photos locally. You can then load up into Capture NX-D and process from there as well.
I am doing RAW+JPG, when I copy photos to Lightroom, I remove the RAW SD card and only let the JPG show up. If I feel I want more editing in a specific picture, I remove the JPG card and insert the RAW one and copy the photo. Best of both worlds for me.
The thing about Kodachrome is that it just looked natural and this looks like just a preset that you would get from the internet. Like a Lightroom “film preset pack”.
Funny, having shot only a week wirh a Fuji body, naturally I'm still memorizing the important settings first. But after shooting fine square format black and white, I'm more interested in getting a look that suggests a lot of silver in a paper, some age to it, and some zone magic. That all means low horizon light, tripod, etc. Really looking forward to shooting urban stuff in winter light. ( it doesn't snow here) Also interested in color, but not color from chrome. Color and tonal scale from Fuji large format negative. I printed in a custom lab for 15 years. Scanned a huge amount of 4x5 negs, being asked to match transparencies. That takes a lot of time. Clients got their monies worth. You needed two files. One to match the Chromes, and another that would output to photo paper run through chemistry. A straight match to the chrome would not print a match. Ever. But they only wanted to pay for one file. So you kept your version on the drive at the lab as long as you could.
Hello. Excellent work. You have got me excited. I started digital photography with a Fujifilm s1500 and a ccd sensor. I changed a couple of DSLR's since then but i never gained the excellent colours of that kit. Now i was thinking to go back to Fuji again. I would like your advice on which camera has ALL the film simulation modes and can shoot me raw+jpg like you showed in the video. Beginning from the most affordable one 😉 . Keep up the good work because you're an inspiration to many of us hobbyists
Hi, I think your profiles ooze the dry clear sun soaked sky of the N37°-ish home environment. I'd need to adapt to more humid and less clear 51°N light.
I totally agree. I'm in a similar environment and through I love the look it just doesn't seem accurate. Have you had any success with making a recipe?
Well, when I was shooting K64 back in the 80s, there was no such term (at least I never heard of it) "Dynamic Range" and when I heard you state that Kodachrome had a wide dynamic range, my first thought was, he must mean "exposure latitude" which most slide films had very little of. Under or overexposing by more than a 1/2 a stop was asking for trouble, most photogs, myself included would shoot a half stop under for addition saturation and still bracket like crazy. Researching further I do see that there is a difference between exposure latitude and dynamic range. E6 films were a bit more forgiving and you could "push" or "pull" during processing but it was advisable not to go beyond 1 stop in either direction. Due to the increasing inability of getting rolls of K64 processed overnight, I pretty much stopped shooting Kodachrome around 1992 or so moved over to Fujichrome, loved the hell out of Velvia and Provia. Still, it was the best intro I began to shoot slides in the late 70s, it taught me a great deal on metering a scene and exposing correctly and while it was a pain in the ass film to master, I do indeed miss it, a true photographic icon. "Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.." -Paul Simon
Thank you for this! I think I may dive deeply into some of those recipes... However, I have already been searching for some time for a recipe for Agfa CT18. I used to use this a lot, alongside Kodachrome 25 and Fuji Velvia. It was a great film, although more grainy than those others. Not as much latitude as the Kodak, and a bit unforgiving sometimes, but then this was also true for Velvia. If you got the light and exposure just right, the results could easily be better than those other films. It was also my go-to film for portraiture. Maybe I'll just have to continue to experiment....
Reducing the post processing is something that definitely I identify with. Since I am a hobbyist I really don't post process everything too much. I was actually thinking on getting an iPad Pro and doing my post on it, instead of using my desktop PC that is not really a work PC. This plus the in-camera processing the XPro3 (for example) has, would make the post so much easier and practical I think (?)
I get pretty sad whenever I open up my photo storage box and see a half dozen rolls of unshot Kodachrome 64. I keep it because you can cross-process it as BW film. But part of me is holding on to the hope that someone hacks the color development.
For much of what I shoot I like CC, shadows/highlights to taste, Red +2 & Blue -3. This is for X-Trans II. For fast edit, CC & warm slightly. RNI Films app can be a rabbit hole.
I'm ALL about the recipes. I live in my 7 presets and shoot Jpeg + RAW exclusively. Like you said, I'm old enough that I feel like I'm done sitting in front of a computer editing shot after shot for hours on end. I get great results right out of camera. I might crop. I might do a curves layer. Boom! I'm done.
Kudos to you for citing sources and inspirations of the recipes you featured. Another UA-camr, Gajan, posted a video wherein he didn't credit recipes lifted (not credited) from Kevin Mullins and other Fujifilm photographers. Thank you for being informative, thorough, honest and inspiring. Be safe and prosperous.
If you don't know Bill Fortney, he is a Pulitzer Prize winner, NASA trainer, Pro sports shooter, and landscape guru...he only shoots jpegs. In an interview with FujiLove, he discussed how he shoots the image in three different simulations and then selects from them. Building recipes is something I think I will checkout...thanks Andrew.
Yes, you can do that with bracketing and choose three built in sims. I still haven’t found a way to use my custom sims with bracketing but maybe with Fuji Raw X Studio?
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When you change setting for a particular film sim, it's carried over to the sims in bracketing.
Hangover Chilly thanks for clarifying
Ritchie's Kodachrome II and Tri-X push process simulation recipes are my go-tos on my X-Pro2. Love them.
I had nooooo Idea this was a thing with Fuji cameras! Gosh i Love my XT-3 even more now!
Haha this is a fun comment! Wow. That's cool! Enjoy!
same! crazy thing my uncle handed me down his camera when i graduated jhs, now i’m in college and i just found out lol
Same! New perspective for me. Can't wait for my xt3 to return from repair :(
It is game changing. i am loving my X-Pro3 even more now. JPG rocks for me, especially now that I am using Adobe Creative Cloud, which charges me per GB...
Ditto! I had an XT-1for several years and finally upgraded to an XT-3 last week! I’m so stoked to try this on my new camera!
Honestly, these film sims are some of the most inspiring things for photos. Love them!
As someone who's been shooting since the 1960's, I shot a bit of Kodachrome 64 and I think Fuji's "Classic Chrome" is much closer to Ektachrome than Kodachrome. Ektachrome is like Kodachrome, but less warm and bluer. I still have some Kodachrome in my freezer (along with other films I saved when I switched to digital 20 years ago) ...
Wait so you’re telling me that Mccurry didn’t shoot the LAST roll of Kodachrome?????
Wait no, he received and shot the last roll off the assembly line. But by god would I cherish the chance to shoot a roll
Ritchie has been a staple in my FujiX workflow for quite a while now. Happy to see his recipes get some more shine.
I've had my Fujifilm xt-1 voor a week now and it's amazing. I don't have a fuji glass on it for it's over my budget. So I'm using the minolta md 50mm f2. I'm loving the results!!
That's all you need sometimes.
Keep making videos Andrew and Denae I enjoy watching.
I found Ritchie’s website this morning and then ya’ll post this! It’s a sign that recipes are calling my name. Thanks so much for your thoughts on these!
This why you've got the best photography channel for all us Fuji geeks!
Glad you think so! Definitely doing my best.
So glad you made this video Andrew! I LOVE Richies Portra 400, Kodachrome 64, and Tri-x sims. It’s nice to see the simulation of the film in the viewfinder. Oh yeah!!! You’re right us Fuji shooters many of us came from film. I later left Sony for Fuji all because it brings back the romance of analog photography. The film simulations are the icing on the cake after having all the dials and tactile feel of shooting. I still feel a connection to legacy photography and everything analog shooting Fuji. It really gives you the best of both worlds. Fuji cameras really grow on you. Thanks again for all your Fuji videos and thanks for being loyal to this Fuji community. You didn’t fall for Sony for more clicks and leave like some former Fuji you tubers did. Thanks!
Haha. The call of the clicks is real.
You are so calm in explaining I am happy to just have you talk in the background instead of some hipster playlist!
Wow. You just open a whole new world of excitement for me. Had no idea I could do this on my camera. Thanks! #mindblown
I've shot Fuji's for years and had no idea this was a thing. Man oh man I'm going to try them all!
I’ve been aware of Fuji recipes since I got my first Fuji in 2013 and have been using them since over the years. It’s so much fun to come up with a cool in camera look and do minor adjustments in post. Back then the “DSLR pros” would think I’m shooting film and were blown away when I would share my jpegs with them out of camera but at that time they were too proud to make the switch because mirrorless at that time was like a toy camera in their eyes.
Very true. I remember that as well.
I still shoot with an X-E1 that I bought new back in 2013. I might upgrade soon but I also feel very proud with what I've shot on JPG using the built in settings. I will say though that I've spent a lot of time tweaking settings (and made probably 1000s of temporary shots) because I can't use Fujis studio software. I also can't use C1 or LR Fuji profiles. This is pretty much the only reason I want to upgrade to XPro! Lol.
I’ve been shooting JPEG+Raw since the holidays and I like the workflow of having JPEGs I can instantly share but having the raw to mess with when I either miss exposure a bit or want to tweak something special. Usually do Classic Chrome with a slight purple WB adjustment. Got to toy with some of the recipes since the X-T2 doesn’t have all the adjustments, but such a fun way to keep things fresh.
As a brand new Fuji shooter (x100v) experimenting with custom film profiles was next on my list of thing to learn, so this video was very timely. Having already found that the x100v has changed the way I’m shooting my street Photography it seems fitting that maybe it’s time I shifted my style and look too. Thanks for the inspiration once again and hope you and the family are staying safe 👍
Hey cool! You got one. How do you like it?
Andrew & Denae love it so far, I’ve not taken the 5D out since I got it. I’ve found that it’s changed how I shoot, slowing me down. It really does feel like using a film camera. My only negative is the small size with my big hands, however once I can find and pick up a hand grip that should help.
That's why I have a fuji in the first place, for that analog feeling, can't thank you enough for this video, I'm absolutely in love with the recipes from Fuji X weekly. (Gona be honest I'm one of those guys that follow your channel for ages without subscribing for some stupid reason! but You got my subscription today sir.) Have a good one, Andrew
Great to hear! Thanks for watching Jorge
I looooooove shooting jpeg with my Fuji x100f. I definitely understand why people shoot in raw, and I do on occasion, but it's just nice to be able to point and shoot and what you get is what you get, and it's based off of your initial understanding of how your camera works.
I recently stumbled upon Fuji Recipes earlier today , and it suddenly got me all excited all over again, I just love how Fuji constantly makes me unravel your camera every now and again, such an evergreen exploratory machine 👍😊
One thing I'll say about all of the "film recipes" as someone that shoots almost exclusively film is that it makes zero sense to have white balance adjustment for a color negative film recipe (I know that kodachrome is slide film, so this is more of a general comment about film recipes).
If you've ever scanned color negative film you know just how much editing a scanner, or inversion software does to that final image. If we're talking about lab scans then the image will be hugely influenced not just by the scanner used, but by the lab tech that is calibrating and running that scanner, and applying tweaks to the overall images.
So I personally find it so silly that any color negative recipes adjust the white balance when color negative film doesn't have inherent casts to it. Slide film you could certainly make a case for since what you see is more or less what you get.
Great video, and apologies for a comment that's somewhat divorced from the video itself :-P
Thank you for that recipe. The soft tones and less contrast is lovely and it replaced the Kodachrome 64 in my X100V. I already have a few high contrast, saturated recipes so this is a perfect addition.
I really like your content and the way you convey ideas so clearly and eloquently. Good job!!
One thing about Kodachrome is it had a very compressed dynamic range, so shooters had to find a sweet spot when shooting.It was the film I shot every chance I get.
The thing about Richie’s recipe is that the skies look more Portra than Kodachrome; the recipe, as you noted, works well in certain settings but not so well in others. And so, I’ve gone back to RAW and using presets to get me the Kodachrome look (though I have yet to find a preset that renders skin like real Kodachrome).
Keep creating your great content!
I agree with you about the skies. Which preset have you found that renders an accurate representation?
I stumbled upon Ritchies recipe a while ago, might give it a go. Such an inspiration, the picture where your son is floating in the swimmingpool is powerful, and he has grown so much!
Brother, this was a revelation to me. I have done my 10,000 hours processing RAWs and I have switched to Fuji precisely to get back to basics - and a big part of that is shooting JPEGs. I hadn't even considered RAW processing applications, and certainly not Fuji's. However, this will be EXTREMELY useful for developing a few versatile recipes that I can rely on for the JPEG results that I am looking for. Thank you!
I shot Kodachrome 64 in Hong Kong, China, Thailand,The Philippines, Australia. When Fuji Velvia came out that was the end of that. K64 was almost as contrasty as lith film in sunlight. Took a week to come back from the lab - but - they are still as good as new - 40 years later. Must go through them one day
I used Kodakchrome. I loved 25 ISO colors. I tried those film simulations 2 years ago. The JPEGs rendered great under good lighting conditions. Agfachrome was great too. My least favorite was Ektachrome.
Excellent video 😊!
Been trying some of Ritchies recipes more and more lately. So far I haven't found any of them the hit the spot. For some reason they don't allways end up in the x-t2 as they do on the website.
However the Kodachrome recipe for the x-t2 sensor combined with a fast aperture lens like kamlan a moody day in the forrest at fall makes for some really moody shots!
Great video!
I've never tried Kodachrome either, but we have some old slides at home. That magic look is why I still love using my Leica M9, even if it is sloooooooow by today's standards. Superb looking jpegs straight from the camera is mildly addictive :-) And that sensor was developed by Kodak specifically to resemble Kodachrome!
Nice video. I love to read Fuji X Weekly. I almost always shoot RAW+JPEG. Most of my photography is as an enthusiast but I do occasionally shoot a paying job. When I am shooting for money I generally use your first profile as it is other most efficient and allows more flexibility. However when shooting for fun I love to pick either a recipe I have read about or one I came up with on my own and constrain myself for the entire shoot or day. Sometimes it is fun to do it with just one prime lens chosen before I start. It truly is all about the process with Fuji. Thanks for sharing and good luck on your workshops.
I do like your version of the recipe better with the lower contrast. Appreciate you sharing this with us.
3.17 exactly the reason why I’m watching your video and think about switching from RAW editing to in-camera processing right from the start :)
When I started shooting digital photography years back... I had it in JPG and always felt it was important to take it and never retouching the images and it’s why I stayed with shooting film .
Great review or overview on your thoughts on this subject Andrew! Miss shooting with you!
Always a good idea to "bake" jpg in-camera as it is near impossible to replicate the simulations in post with LR or C1, even though C1 is very good.
Thank you for pointing me in the direction of Ritchie Roesch. Looking forward to geek out on his recipes.
Very true. And you are welcome.
I have to go dig out my slides and slide projector. I love how kodachrome looks projected!
I found you guys way too late as I'm new to photography and the Fuji system...but I already love you guys.
FINALLY!! I've been waiting so long for someone to make this video! Very few people know about these Fuji X weekly recipes. Thank you for doing this!
As someone who shoots film, I love the idea of essentially reviving Kodachrome in a new light. I wish we had Kodachrome...
Velvia killed Kodachrome many years ago.
just purchased an XT3 and Im loving the jpegs and leaving the RAW for my canons, Fuji has given me my mojo back with these film simulations, but I do tweak them slightly
Awesome video. Never got the chance to use Kodachrome either, but did love Portra. I’ve been trying to emulate film for years. Saved this vid for future reference.
Kodachrome 64 looks amazing, i will try it today.
Hey guys! That was my article on Fuji X Passion 🤣👍🏻 thanks for using it! Did you guys like the shots on there???
Yeah man. Great job!
Andrew & Denae thanks so much guys!! Not a direct feature but I’m buzzing I was there 🤣👍🏻
Such a great idea Andrew. I just found these recipes and glad I did! Very inspiring to use, almost like loading a roll of film, to me anyway. My Xpro2 seems to have a few recipes on the Fuji X Weekly site which I am trying out. I had the please in my youth to shoot with analogue including Kodachrome 64 so I am tending to favor the Kodachrome II recipe just now, also the mono TriX oh yeah and the Ilford HP5 of course, spent many a long hour in my loft darkroom with this. Anyway, nice video Andrew. Keep on inspiring! :-)
Hey Man! I'm from Phnom Penh, Cambodia where you show pictures in the video. I started to love Fuji which i never used before. But I do love film look also the simulation. thank for the video.
In addition to Kodachrome 64, there's a lot of hype about Ritchie's Portra 400 recipe. You should try that too!
I'll check it out!
Yeah it is great.
you have such a nice way of expelling the little details! Really enjoyed the video!
The factory Kodachrome I liked and wanted to shoot more and have more. Have more, this video has been what I have been looking for. Thank you.
This workflow is the main reason why I have migrated to Fujifilm
Thank you so much for this video! This provides great, invaluable lesson for fujifilm owners! I've always wondered how to use or what these are for. I had a bit of idea on what I'm gonna do with them but this video just made it clear for me. This only made me fall in love more with my fuji. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Another great feature of the Fuji Digital cameras. Those recipes are or the capability of configuring the camera to do this processing in-body is fantastic.
They wrote songs about Kodachrome. It's almost like taking it away was Kodak's middle finger to digital. I'm really glad to see folks continue to try and mimic it. I shot with it in the late 1980's and the 90's. I'm not sure it can be duplicated in a way that enables it's "look" in a broad range of shooting situations. As I recall it wasn't very forgiving of exposure errors. I really miss Kodachrome, especially Steve McCurry's work with it. It was a "do everything" film. The closest thing I've been able to do is adjust exposure in RAW like usual if needed and then apply the Fuji Classic Chrome film simulation. From there I adjust the saturation sliders and boost the contrast. Classic Chrome emulates blues and especially skies almost exactly like Kodachrome but the other colors not so much. Digital photographers are obsessed with dynamic range but the 1980's Kodachrome look in Nat Geo was contrasty, saturated (but not overcooked like Velvia) and almost appeared underexposed in many cases.
Great insights
Wow super cool
I'm new to Fujifilm and am definitely going to explore this. Thank you.
Interesting. I just got my XT4, and am just beginning to dive into it. I am a video shooter, so my work is primarily in that. I think I'm going to do a series of tests baking in LUTs after seeing this and see how it all translates over there. Thank you again, from Cedar City. Love the videos!
Oh boi. Fuji colours are a godsend for video! I personally prefer classic chrome -2 colour, -4 highlights, -4 shadows and -4 sharpening. Gives me a real filmic look and it's still quite gradeable. For a commercial high key look I'd advice ProNeg Standard with everything toned down. It's gives vibrant yet subtle colours in a bright environment and is super flexible for later grading. Have fun!
@@kmg1100 *Comment screenshots intensify* 😂
Brilliant video as always. I’ve been using Richie’s Kodachrome recipes for a while, slightly modified to my tastes. Really great to see your take on this. It’s too bad the WB shift can’t be saved per custom slot as I feel that it’s the key to a lot of these looks.
I thought the white balance was saved to each custom slot. I better check that out. Thank you
The ability to use recipes is the greatest driver for me to purchase a new camera. I love my X-T1 but the number of things you can tweek is limited. I have a recipe I like for monochrome in my X-E2. So I won't switch to X-E3.
getting a X100V sunday, will try this out soon....I like Fuji weekly site
This is for real though a good thing to do for professional working photographers, Ken Rockwell for example uses Nikon for the purpose that he can push the JPG images and sell them right off camera.
This is such a super channel. Thank you.
Another great video. Have put in the settings into my XPro 3 and can wait to try it out.
@Andrew I really enjoy your videos. I played around with recipes in the past weeks and I like your Kodachrome adaption. I agree on the skin tone issues with the classic Kodachrome recipes and enjoy the modification. Keep up your style of youtube videos, I like to sit down in the afternoon with a cup of coffee and get inspired by your videos :)
I am totally with you about the desire to stop editing as much-- after using the x pro3 and xt30, I'm totally a believer in the film simulations! But holy crap, I had no idea about this recipe business. So thanks so much for putting me onto that. Hope you and fam and doing well :)
You're welcome, my sir. So did you end up buying the xpro 3?
@@AndrewGoodCamera not yet... haha
man ,i do this is all the time to stimulate the look of kodak vision 3 and i really like the look of it.
Really loving the lighting in your recent videos, good job 💜
Great video. I kind of felt my photo missed something. Using this recipies has made me shoot in a more creative way. Thanks Andrew!
Great info, great pics. Thanks.
Another well thought out video and informative. Thanx
Thank you for the tip! Going to try theese recipes my self.
Great shots!
This is amazing. I learnt so much about Fuji echo system with in two weeks of watching a tone of your video. Also got the XT3 based on your review etc that really suited my style. Appreciate all that you do. Thank you.
Wow. Great video, thank you 😊
Great pictures, great content.
Finally someone makes a video on this
I shot jpeg like film. Shooting RAW seems wasteful, unless I'm shooting beauty or products. I think the fuji systems work so much better this way and speeds up my work flow a ton. Its really a film camera without having to buy an develop film, once I started treating my camera like that my pictures came out 10x better.
Raw is for risk management
I love this video! More pleaseee
This is fantastic! I waited for this, thank you man!
What an awesome video along with the website Fuji X Weekly. X-T20 isn't the best for these since it can only save 3 WB shifts (although some recipes have same or close WB shifts so you can work around) and the option for CC FX Blue for instance isn't present but the outcome is very close to the great pictures presented in this video. Made shooting even more fun.
i love my xt30 thanks
This is the reason I picked up a Fuji XE4 today. Love all the recipes Ive seen on other videos! My main camera is a Canon R6, but I have a feeling I will be using the Fuji a lot! By the way, can you set different recipes to different custom settings? Need to find out how to do that if so.
Thank you for the wonderful information....
I'm just going to throw this out there for any Nikon shooters, you can do something very similar using Nikon's Picture Control Utility and you can actually create a file on your system and upload the picture profile to your camera. Fuji has some great out of the box profiles but if you wanted to you could create some nice custom profiles for your Nikon as well. I currently have a Fuji Neopan inspired black and white profile loaded on my Coolpix A. I been shooting both RAW and JPEG and I got to say the JPEGs are really really good. I have heard in the past of photographers loading up profiles to emulate those "Canon Colors" that people like. I believe canon also allows you to do something similar. I wish Fuji would allows you to create sharable profiles like Nikon does. I think you can use one of the Fuji utilities to backup your camera settings but I don't think there is a easy way to share profiles other than to manually punch in the settings.
Got a link on how to do this, or use other people’s Nikon recipies? I’m a Nikon Z6 shooter.
@@roguesodyssey nikonpc.com/ is a good starting point. You can make some edits on the site but you can also download the Picture Control Utility from Nikon and load up your own photos locally. You can then load up into Capture NX-D and process from there as well.
Keep these recipes coming!!
wow really great colors, love the videos
Thanks so much 😊
As a German Fuji User I like the recipe book from Thomas B. Jones.
It is a great book for cock your own recipes.
I am doing RAW+JPG, when I copy photos to Lightroom, I remove the RAW SD card and only let the JPG show up. If I feel I want more editing in a specific picture, I remove the JPG card and insert the RAW one and copy the photo. Best of both worlds for me.
Thanks for sharing. Still a little bit to red for me so I’ve backed it off the hair but otherwise quite enjoying the aesthetic
The thing about Kodachrome is that it just looked natural and this looks like just a preset that you would get from the internet. Like a Lightroom “film preset pack”.
This was a revelation, thanks
Funny, having shot only a week wirh a Fuji body, naturally I'm still memorizing the important settings first. But after shooting fine square format black and white, I'm more interested in getting a look that suggests a lot of silver in a paper, some age to it, and some zone magic. That all means low horizon light, tripod, etc. Really looking forward to shooting urban stuff in winter light. ( it doesn't snow here) Also interested in color, but not color from chrome. Color and tonal scale from Fuji large format negative. I printed in a custom lab for 15 years. Scanned a huge amount of 4x5 negs, being asked to match transparencies. That takes a lot of time. Clients got their monies worth. You needed two files. One to match the Chromes, and another that would output to photo paper run through chemistry. A straight match to the chrome would not print a match. Ever. But they only wanted to pay for one file. So you kept your version on the drive at the lab as long as you could.
Hello. Excellent work. You have got me excited. I started digital photography with a Fujifilm s1500 and a ccd sensor. I changed a couple of DSLR's since then but i never gained the excellent colours of that kit. Now i was thinking to go back to Fuji again. I would like your advice on which camera has ALL the film simulation modes and can shoot me raw+jpg like you showed in the video. Beginning from the most affordable one 😉 . Keep up the good work because you're an inspiration to many of us hobbyists
Thanks Andrew
Sure thing!
Hi, I think your profiles ooze the dry clear sun soaked sky of the N37°-ish home environment.
I'd need to adapt to more humid and less clear 51°N light.
I totally agree. I'm in a similar environment and through I love the look it just doesn't seem accurate. Have you had any success with making a recipe?
Well, when I was shooting K64 back in the 80s, there was no such term (at least I never heard of it) "Dynamic Range" and when I heard you state that Kodachrome had a wide dynamic range, my first thought was, he must mean "exposure latitude" which most slide films had very little of. Under or overexposing by more than a 1/2 a stop was asking for trouble, most photogs, myself included would shoot a half stop under for addition saturation and still bracket like crazy. Researching further I do see that there is a difference between exposure latitude and dynamic range. E6 films were a bit more forgiving and you could "push" or "pull" during processing but it was advisable not to go beyond 1 stop in either direction. Due to the increasing inability of getting rolls of K64 processed overnight, I pretty much stopped shooting Kodachrome around 1992 or so moved over to Fujichrome, loved the hell out of Velvia and Provia. Still, it was the best intro I began to shoot slides in the late 70s, it taught me a great deal on metering a scene and exposing correctly and while it was a pain in the ass film to master, I do indeed miss it, a true photographic icon.
"Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.."
-Paul Simon
Thank you for this! I think I may dive deeply into some of those recipes...
However, I have already been searching for some time for a recipe for Agfa CT18. I used to use this a lot, alongside Kodachrome 25 and Fuji Velvia. It was a great film, although more grainy than those others. Not as much latitude as the Kodak, and a bit unforgiving sometimes, but then this was also true for Velvia. If you got the light and exposure just right, the results could easily be better than those other films. It was also my go-to film for portraiture. Maybe I'll just have to continue to experiment....
Haven't heard many people talk about that film. Would be curious if you find a solution.
Reducing the post processing is something that definitely I identify with. Since I am a hobbyist I really don't post process everything too much. I was actually thinking on getting an iPad Pro and doing my post on it, instead of using my desktop PC that is not really a work PC. This plus the in-camera processing the XPro3 (for example) has, would make the post so much easier and practical I think (?)
I get pretty sad whenever I open up my photo storage box and see a half dozen rolls of unshot Kodachrome 64.
I keep it because you can cross-process it as BW film. But part of me is holding on to the hope that someone hacks the color development.
i actually like to use in camera recipe because am lazy at post. but not all the time only when travel / street. my camera is D750.
For much of what I shoot I like CC, shadows/highlights to taste, Red +2 & Blue -3. This is for X-Trans II. For fast edit, CC & warm slightly. RNI Films app can be a rabbit hole.
Man, I just bought the RNI profiles and it is amazing!