Fujifilm Film Simulation Settings Simplified (Part 1)

Interesting way to explain them.
The true nitty gritty of each film simulation can be found by passing a light source through a prism to create a refracted light spectrum.
If you shoot the "Rainbow" you can see what each simulation does very easily.
Provia plays heavily with shifting colours between red/orange/yellow and creates a lot of teal between green and blue and subdues purple and violet.
Velvia saturates colour by creating a deep S curve in tone curve, it moves blue to be much closer to violet and increases tint deep into magenta to deepen green and blue hues.
Astia despite what fuji says shoots colour naturally, but greatly reduces the tone curve. It mutes reds and greens, but saturates everything else quite a bit, especially blue.
Chrome desaturates all colours apart from blue and orange, and increases the tone curve. Chrome for this reason renders browns very well, as brown hues are made up of the base hues of orange and blue.
Pronegative is the only sim that will not fudge any colours. All fuji sims play with either orange and blue, or red and green and creates a teal colour between green and blue hues. Proneg keeps equal spacing and hue fidelity across the ROYGBIV spectrum. It does introduce a little teal between green and blue hues..and is the only film sim to leave blue/indigo/violet untouched.
Classic Neg, despite belief is the cousin to proneg high, but the blacks are faded and it has an inverted S tone curve, It mutes all cool colours, and saturates reds,oranges and yellows, and increases tint towards magenta
Eterna desaturates all colours, but keeps a completely linear tone curve.

The key to Fuji sims is that they do not create a universal RGB tone curve. Each Film sim makes different tone curves in each of the red, green and blue hues. After that the x-trans sensor array featuring more green pixels renders these curves. It super easy to see what is going on by shooting a rainbow clearly in each of the film sims and then comparing. In some images, you'll see the rainbow only has blue..there is no indigo or violet. The film sim has shifted those hues to just be blue, and you'll notice the yellows between Red and Orange can very very narrow, where yellow has been moved to fill its neighbouring hues. However, whatever sim..you will always see a distinct teal between green and blue where those hues have been moved to render closer to each other.

I tried saving en using recipes but it seems like it’s not working. I keep clicking on the “installed” film simulation by the Q button but nothing happens when clicking on it. My photo’s are still the same. And I don’t get the option for saving the recipe either after applying als the settings. I see that there is een page 3 when I’m on page 2/3 but I can’t get to the 3/3. I can’t even explain it here… so frustrating. Really don’t know what to do anymore. I hope someone knows what I mean.

What the heck I’ve owned my fuji camera for years now didn’t know this feature existed

Thanks for this video! ❤❤❤

why when i have any custom sim selected... and try to change to one of Fuji's preloaded it doesn't really change but it sort of combines the costume one i had selected and the one i tried to change it

Classic Chrome & Across 📸

I'm new with Fujifilm. Can I set the simulation that I like for the whole time of shooting? 😊 thanks!

pro neg hi is my favourite fs after astia, then lastly is mono+yellow. i dont want my images looks like most people images, bcs they all using classic chrome

Unnecessary annoying music. Why?

Thx sports I use Cc

This is an outstanding overview; thank you!

Why? Why make something look like something it isn't? If one wants a film look, they have this wonderful chemical miracle solution: film. Actual film reliably gives results that look like film without paying Adobe a monthly poll tax and relying on others' presets to create ersatz images. Digital has a look and there are amazing things computer graphic artists can do to produce images that are beautiful and intriguing. One is digital photography and one is graphic art. Neither is film photography and none of them are painting, drawing, sketching, or sculpture. They all share some attributes - all are visual arts - but they are distinct. To each their own, but I've never been impressed (or fooled) by large photos applied to canvas to make fake portrait paintings, and I am not impressed by those who try to fake photos or videos. I think art is best when whatever medium embraces and uses its own limitations and capabilities for what it is, not what it isn't.

Film simulations in GFX 100s are astonishing for photos, as well as videos

I have a Fuji X-Pro 3 and definitely, I prefer the Classic Chrome. It work so good in the streets. But I still haven't tested shooting in .jpg. Thanks for the video.

Great video. One question which I am unable to find answers anywhere.

Can one use fujifilm recipes for video shooting?

extremely helpful, thanks!

Great video. Thanks.

Can we use film simulation mode when we use auto mode, xt30

Thanks for the info… I will be upset if my camera doesn’t have Acros

Great video, just picked up x30 gonna try classic chrome when I shoot

great video - can you share the procedure from your mEnu to use 3 simulations at the same time - thanks again.

When I started using Fuji, I was big on Velvia. In part because I used it in my films days. But now I prefer to start with Provia and tweak the exposure and saturation a bit in post. I find Velvia tends to flatten some colors too much and we loose fine color nuances… I do use Astia sometimes. Acros only for IR photography, works really well. The beauty of all those film simulations is that very little post is needed. I’m still a raw shooter though…

This video is very informative about film simulation differences and their purposes... great vid !

acros +r = heart eyes

Hi , I was playing around with my tx20, for some reason I lost all different settings on my film simulation , how do I gain it back

They're ok but if you compare them to actual film they aren't really anything like the real thing.

Amazing video for a beginner like me

The background pic is from Vietnam. 👍❤️

New to Fuji System. Thank you for this video

Silkypix Developer Studio Pro 10 is the best software to edit Fujifilm.
Because, they are the company that created the Fujifilm X Converter. Also the company behind Nikon, Panasonic, Pantex raw converter.
Highly recommended.

Just switched to Fuji from Sony. This series is the truth. Your way of explaining was perfect . Thank you

Thank you Jay!! 🙏👌

Thanks

Hey Jay ....Iam going to get a fujifilm xs10 , was wondering if we can shoot film simulations in full auto mode

i have created my own called Polaroid look the Leica look and other on my fuji gfx and saved in the user menu as the name i call the film simulation

Thanks, Jay. The Acros is really great as I'm experimenting with black and white.

good stuff here bro

I love the classic neg look.

Can u change it later after shooting ?

Jay, thank you for a very well explained Fuji film simulation. You speak clearly & described succinctly of each simulation & its best application. You do have a good voice for recording, also. I used all the simulation based upon what I’m 📸. I also add or subtract values to give it added contrast or chiaroscuro, for example. I urge Fuji users to experiment & get addicted to the Fuji system. I have 5 Fuji 📷: X-M1, 2X-Pro1(very film like quality), X-E3 & X-Pro3 😅. I used them all for different 📸 experiences. The X-Pro 3, however, gives me the most rich, detailed, sharp quality & contrast than all others. I also have wide range of lenses to mix & match for even wider range of results. It’s all therapeutic & , of all, fun. ✌🏼

I'm new to the Fuji system, still beginning with the film simulations... Thanks in advance for this one!

hello Jay, i was a real nikon fan untill i recently got a x100v. now that i am new to the fuji system i have to say i really was helped watching some of your videos. so many thanks and greetings from Belgium. Erwin.

love your channel and gonna learn a lot from you. the way you explain it is so wonderfull and your voice is helping in that ;) thank you so much Jay

No Eterna Bleach Bypass?

I liked this video a lot. Subscribed!

I almost always bracket in classic chrome and acros.

I gave you a thumbs up, but it's still as clear as mud.... you say Acros is better than monochrome... but I couldn't see any difference in the 2 files on screen at 1080p

Hey are these simulations on the x100f? I’m thinking of buying the x100f.

really appreciate that you show samples of the different simulations with the same pictures, makes it so much more apparent how the different simulations look/work! thanks a lot!

How much film simulations are in the fuji xt2, and how much on the xt30 im wondering beetween those cameras