The Ektachrome line has been around since the 1940’s, but Kodak didn’t introduced Ektachrome 320T, also known as Ektachrome EPJ 320T, until 1992. This was a high-speed Tungsten color-reversal (slide) film intended for use under artificial light. Tungsten films were never as popular as daylight-balanced films; when used in daylight you get a strong blue cast (unless you have an 80A filter). I’m not completely sure when Kodak discontinued Ektachrome 320T, but I believe it was sometime in the early to mid 2000’s—all Ektachrome films were discontinued by 2013. When Kodak reintroduced Ektachrome in 2018, EPJ 320T was unsurprisingly not included.
This film simulation recipe was not intended to mimic Ektachrome 320T. I was simply trying to create a tungsten film look using the new Eterna Bleach Bypass film simulation. Prior to this I had only one recipe for Eterna Bleach Bypass, LomoChrome Metropolis, so I was eager to create another. The reason for a tungsten-like recipe is because I feel as though I don’t have as many after-dark options as I’d like. This recipe’s similarities to Ektachrome 320T film is coincidental, as I didn’t set out to recreate it, but it does, in fact, resemble the film fairly well.
Even though I didn’t intend to create an Ektachrome 320T recipe, these settings come curiously close. I would consider, when using this recipe under artificial light, setting the White Balance Shift to -7 Red & -6 Blue to more accurately reflect the film (I didn’t make that adjustment for any of the photographs in this article). I wish that +5 was an option for Color—that would likely be more accurate to the film—but unfortunately it tops out at +4. I debated if Grain size should be Small or Large, but I ended up going with Small because that’s what I originally set it to; however, Large grain might be slightly closer to what you’d find on actual Ektachrome 320T, although that’s certainly debatable.
This recipe is the first one to use the new Auto Ambience Priority white balance, which is currently (as of this writing) only available on the Fujifilm X-T4, X-S10 and X-E4 cameras. That means this recipe is only compatible with those three cameras. As a reminder, the camera will take a moment to save each exposure when using Clarity. Also, High ISO NR on the newer camera models is the same as Noise Reduction—Fujifilm renamed it for some reason, but it’s the same thing.
Eterna Bleach Bypass
Dynamic Range: DR400
Highlight: +1
Shadow: -2
Color: +4
Noise Reduction: -4
Sharpening: 0
Clarity: -3
Grain Effect: Strong, Small
Color Chrome Effect: Strong
Color Chrome Effect Blue: Strong
White Balance: Auto Ambience Priority, -6 Red & -5 Blue
ISO: Auto, up to ISO 6400
Exposure Compensation: 0 to +2/3 (typically)
Example photographs, all camera-made JPEGs using this Ektachrome 320T film simulation recipe on my Fujifilm X-E4:
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I liked this recipe very much. XT30 Eterna doesn’t have a bypass simulation so I tried it with Eterna. The results pleased me. For now I have just tested it indoors and it is perfect. It really looks just as nice as taken with an analog camera. I liked this quite a lot. Gloomy, mystical and it looks a bit sad. I hope it reflects the same atmosphere outside. Thank you so much for this and all your great work. You are awesome 🙂
Interesting! I’ll have to try that myself. Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome. I thank you! 🙂
After binge watching all of the TV show Euphoria and finding out after the fact that season 2 was shot in Kodak Ektachrome…I was very eager to try to get a similar style from my Fuji and this is pretty close.
Works especially well with Light reflecting on wet streets and any form of neon lighting.
Awesome! So glad that you like it.
Do you think it is possible to try and get a recipe like this for the cameras that don’t have the bleach bypass simulation? I fell in love with this recipe but sadly the xpro 3 doesn’t have the required sim
It’s possible to get fairly close to EBB using Eterna and turning up the contrast and turning down the color. However, I think the biggest challenge will be the white balance, and you’d have to decide if you want a daylight version or artificial light version, but one recipe wouldn’t be able to replicate both. Fujifilm should have added these features to the X-Pro3, and it’s a real shame that they didn’t. Thanks for the comment!