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Top 10 Film Simulation Recipes of June 2022

Posted on June 28, 2022 by Ritchie Roesch

*Open Warning* – Butte, MT – Fujifilm X100V – “Kodachrome 64“

It’s always interesting to see which recipes you are shooting with. I don’t have a good method to quantify just how popular specific Film Simulation Recipes are. The best metric that I have is page-views—the more times a recipe has been viewed on this website, the more popular I assume it is. I can’t say for certain that there’s a direct relationship between page-views and actual use, but it seems reasonable to suspect that such a correlation exists. This list is the most popular Film Simulation Recipes during the month of June 2022 (so far… there are couple of days left in the month…), as determined by how many times the recipe article has been viewed.

No surprise to me, color recipes are more popular than black-and-white. I love monochrome photography, but color is clearly king. Still, I’m happy to see that my favorite black-and-white recipe made this list, even if it was at the bottom. Also not surprising to me, those recipes with the names Kodak, Kodachrome, and Portra are the most popular. Kodak was top-dog of film (probably still is), so it’s logical that those aesthetics are the most desired. What is a surprise to me is that a few “new” recipes made this list. Ones that have been out for awhile are well established, so they tend to get more views than the new-kids-on-the-block. Brand-new recipes are at a disadvantage for these types of lists, yet three recipes published in June—Reggie’s Portra, Low Key, and Bright Kodak—made it into the top-ten. Yea!

Without further delay, here are the Top 10 Film Simulation Recipes of June:

1. Kodachrome 64

*Denny’s Days* – Beaver, UT – Fujifilm X-E4 – “Kodachrome 64“

2. Reggie’s Portra

*Abandoned Long John Silver’s* – Elk City, OK – Fujifilm X100V – “Reggie’s Portra”

3. Kodak Portra 400 v2

4. Kodak Portra 400

*Journal* – North Salt Lake, UT – Fujifilm X100V – “Portra 400”

5. Low Key

*Cactus Spiderweb* – Goodyear, AZ – Fujifilm X-E4 – “Low Key”

6. Vintage Kodachrome

*Onaqui Horses* – Dugway, UT – Fujifilm X-T30 – “Vintage Kodachrome”

7. Bright Kodak

*Cactus Evening* – Goodyear, AZ – Fujifilm X-E4 – “Bright Kodak”

8. Kodak Portra 400

*Blooms of Pink* – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X-T30 – “Kodak Portra 400”

9. Kodachrome II

*Light on Francis Peak* – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X-E4 – “Kodachrome II”

10. Kodak Tri-X 400

*Motel* – Panguitch, UT – Fujifilm X100V – “Kodak Tri-X 400”

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Top 25 Film Simulation Recipes of 2021

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Ritchie Roesch

*Cooking Up A Film Simulation Recipe* – Fujifilm X-E4 – Fujicolor Super HG v2

By popular demand, I’ve compiled a list of the Top 25 Film Simulation Recipes of 2021! The methodology of determining which ones were most popular is simple: page views. The articles that were viewed the most throughout the entirety of 2021 were declared “most popular” for this list. It’s possible that, while the article was viewed a lot, the recipe wasn’t used all that much—I’m uncertain of a way to know which ones were the most used, so most viewed is the best method I’ve come up with. Also, it’s important to note that the recipes published in 2021 were at a disadvantage because they didn’t have a full year to be viewed, and this is especially true for those published towards the end of the year.

Last year I published Top 20 Most Popular Film Simulation Recipes of 2020, and, while there are some similarities, there are some interesting changes between the two years. The top most popular recipe of 2020 fell to Number 10 for 2021, while #2 in 2020 climbed to #1. Number 7 in 2020 didn’t make the 2021 Top 25 list at all. There’s plenty of other changes, too, yet also some recipes that stayed the same: Number 3 remained in the same place, as did Number 8.

Below you’ll find the Top 25 Film Simulation Recipes of 2021! I’d love to know which of these recipes are your favorites. If there’s a recipe in this list that surprises you, or if there’s a recipe that you’re surprised didn’t make the list, let me know in the comments!

Fujicolor Superia 100

Fujicolor Superia 800

Kodak Ektar 100

Color Negative 400

“Classic Negative”

Kodachrome II &
Kodachrome II v2

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