I've been dying to get my hands on Reala Ace to get this one made...I can see lots of potential with Reala as a starting point for some of the most faithful Fuji recipes yet.
For full effect, I have also made 2 Lightroom presets. One is your basic everyday tweak, and the other is for the full Superia 400 film look...faded shadows with a light green tint, warm but not green highlights, reds that pop, and those LUSH greens. They are available to download from the site as well. Note that these are best applied around half strength in LR.
Consider this version 1, there could be some tweaks to the formula over time, and I'll post if I update it with examples. I'm very pleased with how these are turning out for any photos taken while the sun is up.
A few examples below, would love for this to be a showcase thread for anyone that tries and likes this sim. Enjoy!
Thanks for posting another custom recipe!
I can notice a Fuji Superia vibe in your samples. It might be due to the warm lighting, but the greens seem a bit too warm. Also, there's a strange tonal transition from the foliage to the sky in example 6. Take a closer look.
Fred Miranda wrote:
Thanks for posting another custom recipe!
I can notice a Fuji Superia vibe in your samples. It might be due to the warm lighting, but the greens seem a bit too warm. Also, there's a strange tonal transition from the foliage to the sky in example 6. Take a closer look.
Good catch on 6, I'd uploaded an early test version by accident!
Regarding the warmth, I think it's a big time of day thing. I went back to my bank of film shots with Superia, and the greens can be all over the place depending on time of day, cloud cover, and so on. Dialing back to 5000K might be best for golden hour, or using AWB, but in general, not a fan of doing that when shooting JPEG only for a certain look.
I would say using the "film" preset gets you closer to what you're probably envisioning in your head for true Superia output, but I also wanted a more day-to-day version that honors the general vibe of Superia. The greens are also more subdued without using the LR presets.
Hopefully that wasn't a typo when you said you "can notice" that vibe!
I'm not too familiar with Fuji Superia as a stock, but I quite like the Superia 800 recipe on Fuji X weekly. It doesn't work for all shooting conditions as it can get quite funky but is good on a cloudy day.
One thing I’m going back-and-forth on with the VI is using in body grain. It definitely does not look as natural on this sensor as it did on the V. I would adjust that to your taste. Large strong looks the best to my eye in terms of filmic quality, but it appears quite large. Both sizes of weak look overly digital.
RoamingScott wrote:
One thing I’m going back-and-forth on with the VI is using in body grain. It definitely does not look as natural on this sensor as it did on the V. I would adjust that to your taste. Large strong looks the best to my eye in terms of filmic quality, but it appears quite large. Both sizes of weak look overly digital.
If Fujifilm didn't adjust any grain settings, what you're observing makes sense. With a linear resolution increase of about 24% from 26MP to 40MP, a stronger noise setting may be necessary to maintain the same aesthetic output.
RoamingScott wrote:
Good catch on 6, I'd uploaded an early test version by accident!
Regarding the warmth, I think it's a big time of day thing. I went back to my bank of film shots with Superia, and the greens can be all over the place depending on time of day, cloud cover, and so on. Dialing back to 5000K might be best for golden hour, or using AWB, but in general, not a fan of doing that when shooting JPEG only for a certain look.
I would say using the "film" preset gets you closer to what you're probably envisioning in your head for true Superia output, but I also wanted a more day-to-day version that honors the general vibe of Superia. The greens are also more subdued without using the LR presets.
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Haha! I meant to say I notice a Superia film vibe in your samples. Maybe under cloudy or stronger light, it will be even more reminiscent.
By the way, Fujifilm Superia 400 is currently no longer in production and has been replaced by another film called Fujifilm 400. Many have speculated that the latter is repackaged Kodak film though.
Here's a cool video showcasing numerous images from the Superia 400 film, and the colors are quite distinctive, especially the greens. It's not a look I personally prefer for most of my shooting, but it's definitely unique.
It’s a real shame what happened to Fuji’s film stocks as a result of Covid. Superia 400 and C200 left a big green hole in the affordable film market. If I wanted to shoot Kodak I’d buy Kodak!
The original C200 is still made for the Japan market, though…road trip time.
In many ways this film sim could be seen as a hybrid as Superia and C200, as they share some similar characteristics with Superia being the more washed out/red toned of the two, and this sim is highly influenced by my nostalgia for Fuji colors between those two stocks.
Fred Miranda wrote:
Haha! I meant to say I notice a Superia film vibe in your samples. Maybe under cloudy or stronger light, it will be even more reminiscent.
By the way, Fujifilm Superia 400 is currently no longer in production and has been replaced by another film called Fujifilm 400. Many have speculated that the latter is repackaged Kodak film though.
Here's a cool video showcasing numerous images from the Superia 400 film, and the colors are quite distinctive, especially the greens. It's not a look I personally prefer for most of my shooting, but it's definitely unique.
jviegas wrote:
Funny I don't see any problem with finding C200 in Europe, even at Amazon.
You absolutely can NOT trust amazon listings, at least in the US. I've bought a few C200 and Superia 400 X-Tra listings just in case they were legit...in both cases they were the new Kodak versions.
I hope they bring back Superia 400. I wasn't thrilled with Ultramax when I tried it out. Superia 400, while looking not ideal for all conditions, has an interesting look in overcast conditions.
I hope you will make your LR presets available. ( New to Fuji world & still shoot Sony. ) I did not see them on your website, although I enjoyed looking!
The presets are linked on the recipe pages on my website!
PhilthePhrame wrote:
I hope you will make your LR presets available. ( New to Fuji world & still shoot Sony. ) I did not see them on your website, although I enjoyed looking!
And now a little bit of sausage making BTS...doing this involves a lot of sitting around in parking lots where there is a wide variety of solid colors in one shot so that I can see how each tweak compares to the overall look I'm going for...boring for sure, but this might help illustrate how each color is being affected.
The takeaway is that while reds WILL pop with the everyday preset, it will tend to make all neutrals trend red as well, and this sim is more meant for *mostly* green scenes. I'm still liking the film presets the most for MOST subjects, and I think it's the most faithful to actual film.
