Back in January, I published the Provia Summer Patron Early-Access Recipe, which was supposed to kick off a series of Early-Access Recipes to help clear out the backlog. I never intended for the Early-Access Recipes to be locked for as long as they have been, so I decided to fix that in 2025. My goal for this series was to publish a new Recipe every three to four weeks; however, it’s now May, and this is only the second one. I will try to do better moving forward.
My intention for the Velvia Slide Recipe was a replication of Velvia 100 color reversal (slide) film, which should not be confused with Velvia 50 or Velvia 100F (although Velvia 100 is pretty similar to Velvia 50). I never used Velvia 100 (I have used Velvia 50 many times), so I relied on online resources, as well as my Velvia 50 slides. I feel like, in the right light, this Recipe does quite well at mimicking it, but it’s not always correct. It’s sometimes really convincing and sometimes less so; however, either way, I really like the look of it.
While there are many Film Simulation Recipes that use Velvia, this one is not quite like any that I’ve previously published. Perhaps Kodak Ektachrome E100VS and Improved Velvia are the closest. It works best in sunny daylight, but can also be good for natural light indoors. It’s especially well suited for colorful landscape photography.
This is a Patron Early-Access Recipe. If you are a Fuji X Weekly App Patron, you have access to it right now. If not, no worries, as it will eventually be made available to everyone, once it is replaced by a new Early-Access Recipe. With the exception of the X-T3 and X-T30, it is compatible with all fourth and fifth-generation X-Trans cameras, which (as of this writing) are the Fujifilm X-Pro3, X100V, X-T4, X-S10, X-E4, X-T30 II, X-H2s, X-H2, X-T5, X-S20, X100VI, X-T50, and X-M5. It can also be used on the newer GFX models, including the GFX100S, GFX100S II, GFX100 II, and GFZ100RF.
Example photographs, all camera-made JPEGs using this Velvia Slide Film Simulation Recipe on a Fujifilm X-T4, X-S20, and GFX100S II:
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Nice recipe, love the yellow Bougainvillea, deep shadows. Some photos do make me nostalgic. My film experience and my dads are ectachrome and kodakcrome so can’t comment on fidelity. Wish I could see the recipe but my camera is downstairs and I am a lazy SOB :-). Perhaps you could tease us with the colour settings of the recipe and let us know if we will get the clarity time penalty for using the recipe in the future or maybe just comments like ‘extra blue’
You know there’s a Clarity penalty 🤣 😀
Thanks for your kindness!
I’m excited to try this out!
My big issue with Fuji sensors living in Texas is that the film sims have a hard time pushing bright yellows and bright blues, which I can achieve with other brands more easily. I haven’t been able to craft a recipe in X Raw Studio my liking myself. This film sim gets me excited to see how my X-Pro3 does with this!
Awesome! I hope it works well for you in Texas 😀
quick question, I’m curious on why you went for the white balance that you ended up going with. Is there any noticeable difference between that you chose and something more traditional?
The first time that I did something like this was on the Fujicolor 100 Industrial Recipe. I had read that the film was tungsten balanced but with the dyes adjusted to produce daylight results (or something really unusual like that). I do think this WB approach produces a different look that is somehow slightly cool and slightly warm simultaneously. It’s very subtle, though.
I’ve been trying it out and I do notice what you’re saying. I’ve been trying to make my own preset using astia but struggle with how blue it is. What made you end up going with the incandescent WB instead of setting WB to 3200k like you did in your Fujicolor 100 Industrial film sim
I believe Incandescent is 3000K on Fujifilm, if I’m not mistaken. You could certainly use a Kelvin number instead.