Fujifilm Film Simulation Challenge Roll 8 : Vintage Kodachrome

For this 36 frame "roll of film" for the Film Simulation Challenge, I chose Ritchie's Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation recipe. According to Ritchie:

… I accidentally discovered a vintage Kodachrome recipe for my Fujifilm X100F, based on Classic Chrome. By “accidentally” I mean that I had no intentions of creating a Kodachrome look. I captured a RAW image and played around with it in the camera’s built-in RAW editor. I was trying to see what crazy looks I could get if I really messed around with the settings. One of the versions that I created reminded me of vintage Kodachrome.

Ritchie's happy accident allowed me to capture these in-camera JPEG images. I have never photographed with any Kodachrome film stock so I don't know how accurate Ritchie's recipe is to the original film. However, I do like the results.

If it were possible to add an S-curve in-camera, I would add a slight fade to give an old photographic print look.

What do you think?

Other entries in this challenge series.

Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation

Montgomery Friends Farmers' Market

All images are straight out of the camera. I used a film simulation recipe by Ritchie Roesch which I modified to my taste.

Montgomery Friends Farmers' Market

Montgomery Friends Farmers' Market

Montgomery Friends Farmers' Market

Montgomery Friends Farmers' Market

Montgomery Friends Farmers' Market

Montgomery Friends Farmers' Market

Montgomery Friends Farmers' Market

Montgomery Friends Farmers' Market.

Trying out a new Kodachrome simulation on the Fuji X-T2.

Vintage Classic Chrome and Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation Recipes by Ritchie Roesch

I have been shooting using the defaults on my Fujifilm X-T2 and getting good results. However, I want to shorten the path between the defaults, experimentation, and finding my own settings. I discovered Ritchie Roesch’s website via a Google search for “Classic Chrome Film Simulation Recipes”. Ritchie has created an incredible set of recipes for his XPro2 and X100F. I think these Chrome Film Simulation recipes are a good starting point for me to learn how these film simulations works, tweak them and find my own recipe.

I am using Ritchie's recipe with one modification. I am not a fan of film grain so I have set the grain setting to off for all of these. All of the images here were SOOC JPEGs.

X100F Vintage Kodachrome Film Simulation Recipe

Ritchie Roesch Kodachrome Recipe—FujiFilm X-T2 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 16 mm, f/4.0

X100F Classic Chrome Film Simulation Recipe

Ritchie Roesch Classic Chrome Recipe—FujiFilm X-T2 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 16 mm, f/4.0