Why FUJI CLASSIC CHROME is the BEST FILM SIMULATION!

As a 90's kid I think I connect with Classic Neg. because thats the spectrum of color from my childhood.

Excellent video. I'm a landscape photographer using a Fuji XT-2. Lately I have been enjoying another Fuji user images and he said it was Classic Chrome. I look forward to giving it a go soon.

Very interesting video! Thanks! So for portrait it's better to use pro neg hi, right? I've played with a recipe in classic chrome and pro neg hi too, customizing color and curves.. I really love together!

This was excellent…. It brought back a lot of memories…

Being old I grew up on Kodachrome and then when I started working as a photographer we used Ectachrome because it was easier to get it processed. Then came Velvia and just blew our minds with all the colours. But still, I think most fondly of Kodachrome.

When I shot color film, it was always Kodachrome 25. I really liked the colors and how they made aircraft look on a screen. Vivid is showroom tv.

Loved this video…thank you…..

Content / Great.

Thanks for the insight I found it very interesting seeing the changes - I have just bought my first Fujifilm camera X-S20 and I'm excited to try the various film simulations.

So enlightening, thank you. Excellent post!

Sorry I just watched this video. Where we two years later?

Hey Booray love your vids. Can you tell me is there a way to load into lightroom presets that will make my raws from my h2 match the film looks applied in my camera. Or will the camera apply them to the raws? Thank You Mark

Superb!! thank you !! x100F can take a picture in 3 chosen simulations... I'll do those tests... Kodachrome were my favorites as well as slides!!👍📷

Go chrome, the other sims make you look cianotic. Provia is even worse than Ektachrome 160!

I really like CC, Eterna and Provia. I made 3 custom modes or 'recipies' with them and I like to use them all the time. But I also really like Pro Neg Std and Pro Neg High. For me, i usually want to capture a more realistic look and the Eterna profile makes a great starting point from which to build a recipe to achive that, since its a softer tonality. Colors are great to start with also, very subdued. Pro Neg Std is also very good at that realistic look, but Eterna has a feeling to it that is ever better. At the end of the day, all film simulations look good if properlly tweeked and/or depending on the lighting of the scene.

Eterna, anyone?

Great video! Booray, do you use RAW or film simulations (perhaps both) when you shoot weddings and events? I found it very interesting that you shoot portraits with film sims as I have never heard anybody say that before. I mostly just hear, "RAW, RAW, RAW!" I have never really considered using film sims for client work, but I often dream about shooting in JPEG for the simplicity. Usually I don't express crazy thoughts like that. I hope no one I know reads this.

Give us more samples. Less talk

EyE takes advantage of Fujifilm’s uniquely useful Simulation bracketing mode much of the time..... Chrome/Privia/B&W combo for example, and decide when I get home which treatment fits each. When I shoot single shots, tho, I usually stick to Chrome (could use a little less oranging of the reds, but that would likely have a corresponding negative effect elsewhere on the palette).

Is it possible to apply Fuji simulations to images from other cameras, ie Sony?

What desktop app are you using?

Astia + strong chrome effect is the one for me.

Great stuff, thanks for sharing, please keep coming

Ím 75 and have been inspired by and used Ektachrome processed E6 extensively for my magazine and advertising photography.

The flexibility built into my XT4 allows me to bracket with 3 different film sims. CC is always one of them and is usually the one that I end up liking the most.

24 & 36... I missed you

Thanks for this!!

Hello, can you give me the settings for the Classic Chrome please ? I erase all the natives settings of my fuji X1OOv and I dont found the perfect original settings for classic chrome !
Thanks a lot
have a good day

Absolutely brilliant video. Thanks for making this!

Hi Booray, I used Classic Chrome on my X100F but the images came out extremely flat. The skin tones were bleached out and almost plastic-like, as well as highlights, The shadow areas were too dark with no details. My settings are NR -2, ToneH -2, ToneS +2, Color 0, Sharp +2, WB Auto, DR Auto. . There must be some settings I got wrong giving these weird results. If I convert the RAF files to Classic Chrome, they come out perfect. Regards Antonius

Paul Simon brought it home; I think of this song every time I touch my Fuji camera: So mama, don't take my Kodachrome away, Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away,
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

The most classic Kodachrome picture was the Afghan girl Curry captured for National Geographic. This makes me want to dig up my old issues and reminisce.

Fascinating thank you

I think he is confusing Ektachrome with Kodachrome. The colors look more like Ektachrome than Kodachrome. Kodachrome wasn't used by PJ's nearly 1/10 of how much Ektachrome was used. Any lab, and most publications could process Extachrome in house, but Kodachrome had to be sent away, and took too too long for PJ. I don't remember Wards or Sears ever selling selling Kodachrome, but I do remember them selling Ektachrome and the color negative films. He said he remembered selling lots of Kodachrome 100, 200, and 400, but Kodachrome in the 60's and 70's was only 25 or 64, later in the mid 80's they tried a 200 speed, but it wasn't very popular. So think Ektachrome, not Kodachrome

Thanks for the video. Your neck strap on the x100v. What brand is it?

I dislike classic chrome, it's bland as heck...Is all personal taste. I'm waiting for classic neg.

Thanks for a really thoughtful walkthrough of the simulations for portraits.

What is your opinion on FujiXWeekly and his film simulation recipes for Fuji cameras that represent non-Fuji films such as Kodak and Ilford?

I agree but I’m also considering that too much desaturation could make you look a bit pale and unhealthy

First visit to your channel and liked it very much, subscribed and looking forward to watching more of your posts.

Picking the sky to show the subtilties of film simulation... yea na. Thanks for the history lesson tho, your presentation skills are good.

Hey! Nice video! What is that Program u use to edit your raw pictures?

Fair play, that was fascinating.

You had stock classic chrome settings for video or you made some changes like L and H or color correctinos?

I usually shoot raw and if I want apply a film simulation in On1 Raw. It is never Classic Chrome as the image is washed out, bland, with no contrast. Perhaps this is an On1 Raw thing as in camera on the LCD screen CC looks fine.

Very interesting concept of color memory. As many people share photos with smartphones today, the 'standard true colors' of the world is now over saturated colors, fake color I would say, but it's how the world is seen now. When I show pictures with too much saturation, people say : Your picture is great... I'm afraid that what we like as 'true color' will soon die with us ;-)

it's funny. I'm much younger than you and I feel very strongly that Classic Chrome looks the way I want. It's almost like that's the look I've been trying to achieve when editing I'm Lightroom. It really is like you mentioned, the way that I see the picture in my mind, but I don't really know why ahahha maybe it's the movies for me more than magazines, i don't know. anyway awesome video thanks for making it!
i just moved to Fuji and i have. classic chrome on always, i can't shoot anything else ahha cheers!

This was absolutely fascinating! I’ve flicked between the first trials of the different profiles but never taken the time to look for a short while. Amazing to see how the images “change”. If off to take some classic chrome photos next trip.

Great review about color science. It is so true about color perception. I was all in the Sony Alpha en Sigma camera's which are great. Also fullframe sensors. I thought Apc where inferior than FULL-FRAME sensors. I noticed the Fujifilm X H2s. What a camera with the beautiful color sumilations of Kodak. Really stunning color tech. It is also how I remember my old analog photo prints. It seems more realistic than other brands which are beautiful too but dont have the perspective how you really remember how it was with ordinaire prints.