Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Nostalgic, soft tone and vintage film recipes using Fujifilm film simulations

Xylochrome, Vintage Lens Simulation

Classic Chrome film simulation recipe that emulates a vintage lens style

Druring my film recipe creation process, I occasionally hit on a settings combination that produces a look that is completely different than I had expected. This experiment was just like that.

I was playing with X RAW Studio to make a Classic Chrome recipe with a downward scale of settings with 5, 4, 3 ,2 ,1 starting with a colour temperature of 5430K, a shift of 2, 1, and so on through the settings, until I added at the end of the scale, the strongest negative clarity setting, -5.

I normally avoid settings quite this strong, but on this occasion it added a softness that immediately reminded me of vintage lens photos that I had seen. The softness was like an imperfection, with a character that was decidely analog, especially in the out of focus areas of my images.

This vintage blur isn’t so visible at phone screen sizes, so I’ve provided a crop in the image below.

A vintage lens look with the Xylochrome film recipe

A crop of the above image, showing the vintage lens softness effect

Xylochrome Vintage Lens Film Recipe

Simulation: Classic Chrome
Grain Effect: Off
Colour Chrome Effect: Strong
Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
White Balance: 5430K
WB Shift: +2 Red, +1 Blue
Dynamic Range: DR200
Highlights: 0.0
Shadows: -1.0
Color: -2
Sharpness: -3
ISO Noise Reduction: -4
Clarity: -5
EV compensation: 0

Winter morning teasels, with the Xylochrome film recipe

Xylochrome film recipe has a muted creamy tone with faded blue skies

A late summer day on the riverbank, using Xylochrome film recipe

Late summer sees some early colour in the leaves, Xylochrome film recipe

Oak leaves with early colour, with the Xylochrome film recipe

Let’s go for a photo walk, and try out Xylochrome film recipe

A bit of winter weather, captured with Xylochrome film recipe

Better to drive carefully on the icy roads, Xylochrome film recipe

Down at the beach, on a breezy day. Xylochrome film recipe

There are lots of oysters in the water here. Xylochrome film recipe

The sun is about to disappear for the day, Xylochrome film recipe

Winter leaves have lost all their green, even if they’ve stayed on the tree

A winter walk with the vintage lens look of Xylochrome film recipe

It’s a little bit frosty, making greens pale. Xylochrome film recipe

Other recipes using -5 Clarity

Whilst there is nothing stopping you from trying a strong negative clarity setting on any recipe, there are a few that have been designed with this setting in mind.