Red Lights & Raindrops – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V – “Cine Teal”
Baseball legend Lefty Gomez said, “I’d rather be lucky than good.” This particular film simulation recipe was a failure, but it was a lucky failure. I’ve been trying to create a Kodak Vision3 500T recipe, but I can’t get it right. I’ve tried a number of different combinations of settings, but I haven’t cracked the code (yet). This was one attempt. Under the right light, it does resemble Vision3 500T, but under most conditions it does not. Even though it was a failure, I like the look of this recipe, so I thought I’d share it with you.
I call this new film simulation recipe “Cine Teal” because it looks a bit cinematic thanks to the Eterna film simulation, and has a teal, green or yellow cast, depending on the light. This recipe looks best when used in the “blue hour” of dusk or dawn, and does well in shade and on overcast days. It can be used in other situations, but the results tend to be so-so, although you can still get interesting pictures sometimes. This recipe is a little limited in where it works best, but in the right situations it can look very nice. It’s not for everyone, but some of you will really appreciate it.
Sunlit Tree Leaves – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V – “Cine Teal”
Because this film simulation recipe requires the use of Clarity, it will slow your camera down considerably. Fujifilm suggests, if you shoot RAW+JPEG, to add Clarity later by reprocessing the RAW file in-camera or with X RAW Studio. I just use the pause to slow myself down. This recipe is only compatible (as of this writing) with the Fujifilm X100V, X-Pro3 and X-T4.
Eterna
Dynamic Range: DR200
Highlight: -2
Shadow: +4
Color: -1
Noise Reduction: -4
Sharpening: -2
Clarity: -5
Grain Effect: Weak, Large
Color Chrome Effect: Weak
Color Chrome Effect Blue: Strong
White Balance: 4550K, +1 Red & -9 Blue
ISO: Auto, up to ISO 6400
Exposure Compensation: 0 to +2/3 (typically)
Example photographs, all camera-made JPEGs using this “Cine Teal” film simulation recipe on my Fujifilm X100V:
Small Garden Flowers – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Roses Red – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Roses are Red – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Waiting Wishes – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Subtle Rays – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Cloud & Half Moon – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Suburban Cloud – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Evening House – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Shadow of Self – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Apple & Bike – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Masked Man – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Urban Blossoms – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Evergreen – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Small Table & Chairs – Orem, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Grand Girl – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Mischievous Smile – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Learning to Play – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Lights Off – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Coffee Table – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Asian Decor – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Dining – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Hood Ornament – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Open for Business – Orem, UT – Fujifilm X100V
FedEx – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
Movie Theater – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X100V
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that has a very lovely look… thank you so much!
Two questions:
1. can I somehow simulate this on my X-E3?
2. I kind of lost the overview of all your film simulations (my bad) and maybe you could tell me which simulations also use Kelvin + color shift setting? Was ist Kodacolor, Kodachrome?
Do to my still limited firmware (Fujis bad) I can only use one Kelvin setting in my C1-C7… :-((
cheers Nicolas
excuse my typos… shouldn’t be doing two things at the time… ^^
I haven’t kept it up to date, but this is the article:
https://fujixweekly.com/2019/11/02/film-simulation-recipes-that-use-kelvin-white-balance/
It’s not possible to use this recipe on the X-E3, but it might be possible to get close using Pro Neg Std. Maybe try DR400, Shadow set to +2, and Color set to -2 or -3. White Balance will need to be adjusted a little, but I’m not sure exactly to what, you’ll have to play around with it.
Thanks Ritchie
I was trying to go about a Cine Teal look film simulation and I can’t get it to work… 🙁
What kind of setup does my X-E3 (X-Trans III) need, or would recommend?
This mixture of orange lights and cyan shadows are not that easy to achieve, at least for me…
Thanks for your help!
cheers Nicolas
I’m working on that right now
you are my hero 🙂
Hi!
I like the look in the photo named Small Table & Chairs. It has some special character in it.
For me the look of 500T is sought after, I really have used some time to emulate, or get some of the aesthetics of this film, in a Capture One -style. Everybody seems to have different idea of the look, but from what I have seen, I especially like the look of the film when color corrected with a filter. I understand that it works in mixed lighting as is, without color correction and some photos I have seen look beautiful or at least interesting even in daylight without color correction filter.
But I guess one would have to decide do they want a look without color correction (thus blueish daylight photos) or do they want color corrected look out of it. I personally would choose color corrected anyday over T-balanced look, even though it is against the original purpose of the film. The neutral look is so special that it should also be available for daylight shooting as well. Just my thoughts on the look.
There’s different ways to shoot it and develop it, so creating a recipe is very difficult. I can get some settings to look similar to certain pictures captured with the film, but are far off from others. I’ll keep trying. Thank you for the input, it really helps!
Why set B-9 at 4550K? Why not just set it to 5600 or 6300K R+1 for example? Does that not achieve the same thing?
Sort of, but not exactly, although if I had used a warmer white balance, the shift wouldn’t need to be as radical. When creating this recipe, I started at 3200K, and slowly increased the Kelvin, and so that’s how it came to be what it is. I hope this makes sense.
This is cool. Kinda reminds me of Paola M Franqui (@monaris_} on Instagram. Great stuff as always!
I can see that. In certain situations it can look similar to his pictures.
Any chance you can attempt to simulate the real look on the fuji x-e1?
Maybe. I think Pro Neg Std would be a good starting point. Actually, take a look at this: https://fujixweekly.com/2019/04/13/my-x-t30-eterna-recipe-for-x-trans-iii/
Since that recipe is for X-Trans III and not I, you should set Color to +2, NR to -2, Sharpness to 0 or +1, and obviously you don’t have Grain Effect, and that should get you close to Eterna on the X-E1.
Hello Ritchie,
Firstly, thank you for your hard work bring us so delightful film recipes 🙂
I have a T-4 now after moving from the T-3 and I don’t remember the camera taking so long to store the photos. I hadn’t used any of your recipes at that point, but I remember it was pretty faster.
Now, with all recipes I got from your blog, except the one that uses Velvia as reference, have quite long storing times. Sometimes making me losing precious moments.
I guess that the new clarity adjustment slows down the process as you mentioned. But do you think faster cards could help? I’m using the same I used to use with the T-3 (Sandisk Extreme Pro (170 mb/s). Or maybe my camera is a faulty one?
Tks for the help!
A faster card might help, but Clarity definitely slows down the camera. Also make sure Performance is set to Boost. Set Clarity to 0 and see if it’s faster. You can always add Clarity later if you shoot RAW+JPEG, so that you don’t miss the shots.
The coffee table looks like an still from Blade Runner. Quite interesting recipe : )
Thanks! This recipe is certainly unusual, but can be interesting in the right light.
I’ve used this today on a typical weather day in The Lakes, this ‘lucky’ sim recipe is fantastic!
Awesome! I’m glad that you like it!
Wow so nice that small table and chairs. I have recently started using these recipes and I am fascinated about these. I am going for long hiking next month to Nepal and will try cine teal. Any other recipe do you recommend looking at?
I appreciate your kindness! Kodachrome 64 is always a good option.