Does the Fuji x100v ACTUALLY look like film??

I told someone Fujifilm simulation dont looklike film even less than 50% accurate

Film is great, if you’re made of money. If you crave the “imperfection” of film, digital will always leave one lacking. That being said, it comes remarkably close at smartphone resolution.

This is by far the best film vs digital comparison I've ever seen. Finally someone actually grades the digital to look on par with the film. I started shooting film seriously about 3 years ago and I've finally come to the conclusion that the beauty of the 'film look' or 'film colours' that analog delivers is for the most part a result of professional film labs knowing how to convert/balance scans to be very well white balanced and properly exposed. After scanning thousands of 35mm frames, my understanding of colour balance and curves has gotten to a point where my digital work achieves better 'film colour' than my actual film work. I do still miss the delay between shooting and seeing the shots, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

The film seems to accentuate reds more -- which is why the reds are more vivid and the whites are off-white. Would be interesting to throw an enhancing filter on the X100 and retest.

I don’t think the issue is not being able to get a film look in post with any camera, but that with the fuji recipes you can shoot them out of camera.

Digital shooter - “film prices are rising again !”

Same digital shooter - pays the equivalent of a roll of film for cloud storage, every month for the rest of their life, to keep all their digital negatives from vanishing into /dev/null

You know what they say. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". For example, how many guys you know absolutely love ugly women? I rest my case. Anyhoo..love your channel.

Please could you let us know the recipe for ACROS? I did not see it posted in the video. Thank u!

You know what would have been slightly closer, while not having all the simulations you perhaps want an older lower mb x100 such as the orginal, or the s. My experience is that the older sensor in the x100, specifically, is magic for film reditions right out of the camera because of the combination of lower resolution and the specific rendering of the Bayer sensor.

Nothing looks like film

This was an awesome video! Great to see the comparisons! :D

Film eats digital for breakfast. And especially with human skin. Digital just sucks, by comparison. I've been doing these comparisons for years, hoping to find a good digital equivalent to, especially Portra, with no avail.

In summary, digital captures a more true to life image, but film is more blurry and low resolution, so film wins. ?????

I wish some digital camera company would adequately address highloght clipping. Worh that addressed I would be happy.

Thats why I love shooting real film :)

Fuji's are fun to take photographs with, but I feel in my opinion, you want more of a film look from a digital camera, go with a ccd sensor camera such as the Pentax *ist d, Olympus evolt e-300, or a Nikon d40, d60.

Hi, bro, nice channel and video----a comment. Film is 35mm sensor vs the crop in fuji. And the looks come with vintage lenses. Take a mirrorles fullframe camera and a old school lens and shoot. Is a great combo. Make a super cool video with that. see ya

if you'll make same, but with portraits, difference will be much bigger i think, if you have film reference and you can adjust digital photo to that reference look that is easier, but if it's just digital photo sooc, difference will be very huge

Film shots were much more inviting in my view. Digital looked nice but kind of distant. Thanks for sharing this experience!

great video!

hi is this Portra v2 or Portra 400?

The best comparison I've seen! thank you so much for the job! ❤

in regards to the softness of film vs the sharpness of digital, that is simply a given when it comes to these two mediums. You have options though. You should consider a Moment Cinebloom filter, probably a 10% would give you the look you crave.

There’s something about film or the final prints. I seem more luxurious when you get the print. In school they had a dark room and the process was magical. The fujifilm is my favorite camera.

From my experience taking digital photos at a lower resolution or downscaling them instead of upscaling them in post can get you even closer to the look of film. Everyone gets so caught up in doing the highest-resolution and megapixel crazy to make the sharpest best picture possible but you can see especially in the sign photos that you took that the digital photos were much more clear much sharper then you're very expensive top quality film and film camera setup. I'm not saying the digital photos were better. The colors and feel of the film photos are much more pleasing of course.

Arri Alexa said getting the film look is about gamma not the dynamic range as much as other companies keep talking about. The Sigma L-Mount camera is said to be on pare with Arri Alexa when it comes to gamma.

I'd say most of that sharpness issue in digital will be fixed by adding an 1/8 or 1/4 pro mist filter. Nice comparison vid man!

Thank you, wonderful Video. I was surprised how much more I react to the Film shots. It's like almost a bodily reaction, especially the night shots. Looks like I have to get into Film:) So expensive though.

This is an interesting experiment but I think it has a few flaws. You are assuming that the film recipes are close approximations of the film- and it shows that they are not. It could have been a better idea to compare stock Provia emulation with Provia. I have used a Fuji for quite a few years now, and have few old rolls shot on Provia, and I think that the emulation is very good and comes extremely close to the film. Another thing is that you are using two different lenses on the two cameras- lenses also have inherent colour, contrast, and sharpness, so they can also contribute to the differences you are seeing. I think it was possible to get Fuji much closer to Leica.

I think I might agree with a couple of peeps re trying out either a Promist or black mist (if you want to keep your shadows but that's getting away from the whole emulation conversation) at around the 5% (if you can get your hands on a Moment Cinebloom 5%, just leave it on there but good luck?) or 1/8 mark, just to take the digital edge off...have you tried warming up the white balance for the Portra, or raising the highlights in-camera as it were for the Acros? Great video. You have my sub.

If you want to see what film could really do, print under enlarger. . This is why I quit from film for now :)

Great video and a perfect example of why the older, CCD digicams have made a comeback. Modern, CMOS sensors and lenses are far too sharp, sterile and digital looking. They lack the depth and warmth of film. Much like the difference between vinyl and CD. The CCD digicams are like the cassette tapes of the photography world, right between the two. Not identical to vinyl but much closer to it than CD. Would like to see this comparison with something like a Canon Powershot G2 or a Fuji S5 Pro vs film. I bet its much closer.

lets don’t forget it’s not only a battle between film and digital but also 23mm/f2.0 for apsc vs a 35 mm/1:1,4 Nokton VM II for 35mm.

Film is definitely getting too expensive. Also Leica camera second hand prices have spiked too.

curious about your lightroom recipe for this?

the x100v looks like a camera..

I love how you count before a capture. I do the same 👍🏽

Selective color…whites….+ yellow 10

several years ago I had to describe film to a 20 something. wow how the world has changed.

Dead Give Away, look for dust and the tell tale scratch. How did you adjust the digital WB, in camera or post edit? I don't like to do a film sim WB in post. It seems to put you back to square one in the digital world. color that is faded and pastel is film's uniqueness for me.

Inspirational! You make me want to do a film video of my own!

I understand the nostalgia thing but digital is the winner here. Digital images supposed to be perfect and sharp as hell. The goal of digital photography is always superior image quality.

This video was amazing. This is how I found your channel. Keep it up I love your vids. Would you ever do a similar video where you test nikon film simulations (picture profiles) with film. Maybe they are closer maybe further off, would be interesting to see tho.

that moving old car shot in front of the sign is perfect, what a good timing

You have a very 80’s aesthetic. 80’s clothing & hat. 80’s photography. 80’s mustache.

you should try this but with fujixweekly's portra 400 v2 recipe

Joaquin Phoenix?!

I am not sure why it would be desirable to have that "nice softness" that the film gives. You can always make a digital image softer in post. You can't make an image sharper than when it was captured. But I guess that goes for all things having to do with film. Film is inferior to digital. The only reason to want to make a digital image look like film is just to replicate the look of an old film image - that is all. It isn't that those images were better - they were just different.

What is the recipe for Acros 100 ll?

Voigtländer and Fuji lenses are quite different from each other, Fuji has usually more resolution but less soul and
completely different colors.. I don't know whether the comparison really works here..

love the photos bro ! nice work on the video! just subbed