According to Fujirumors, the upcoming Fujifilm X-T4 will come with a brand new film simulation: Bleach Bypass. What’s bleach bypass? It’s a darkroom technique where you skip or limit the bleach during the development of color film, which retains the silver in the film. What you end up with is a high-contrast, low-saturated image that might appear as though someone combined a color and black-and-white image. Think Classic Chrome, but with more contrast and less saturation, and a silvery appearance. I think this new film simulation will be an excellent addition!
Will Fujifilm make the new Bleach Bypass film simulation available to other cameras via a firmware update? Maybe the X-Trans IV models, not likely any other. Fujifilm has yet to add Classic Negative to the X-T3 or X-T30, and maybe they never will. I’m hopeful that after the release of the X-T4, Fujifilm will add both of these new film simulations to the “older” X-Trans IV models, but that might be nothing more than wishful thinking. I will tell you this: it’s hard not to be envious! I’m really looking forward to one day trying both of them and creating new film simulation recipes. I just hope that day comes sooner than later.
I also hope to get the new simulations on X-T3/0, and if not I will wait for you to recreate them 😉
Any way X-T3/0 are great cameras and the features they have are more than enough for me.
Yes, the X-T3 and X-T30 are awesome cameras, even if they never get the new film simulations. Thank you for the reminder!
This is all pretty exciting.
Yes it is!
And there are enough presets/filters to be had in Exposure & LR to keep me at least going for years.
Great site by the way.
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Cheers
Jeff
I appreciate the comment!