The differences are subtle at first, to be sure, especially if you're not looking at them side by side. I'm not a Fuji shooter myself (couldn't get in before the pricing bubble), but from an outside perspective, the first thing I notice is that all the shadows are lifted a little bit in the simulation shots. They end up looking more like *faded* Portra 400 that was improperly stored, as opposed to what a fresh roll got you. It needs that extra bit of room to fall off into pure black, and perhaps a little more willingness to blow out the highlights. If it could give you just a little more on either end of the tonal curve, I think it would be *real* close.
Sorry but these are not even close. The film has much more micro contrast, so mid tones pop compared to the mostly dull images from the Fuji. VSCO does it better, but still not like the original film. Good job anyway!
I would love to see you create your own Portra Recipe based on your film photos. 🎉 The FujiX recipe is great for an "inspired" look, but after seeing other videos comparing Fujix to real film, the FujiX is missing the highlight and contrast. Not to the fault of the camera or even the recipe, because all settings can be adjusted. I think Fujix is great as a base, because one thing the creator of Fujix makes sure to say is every roll of film can develop different based on chemical process, manufacturing of film, development process from the lab...ect. Reggies Portra is also another portra on Fujix that lives as a recipe on my camera. More of an inspired look than a replica but its got beautiful soft kodak like colors. Cheers!
Thanks for the comment! I have done some of my own recipes, but eventually they go quite far from any “film stocks” that it’s just hard to compare them to anything.
This is always a crazy difficult comparison to make. If the exposure isn't exactly the same in both cases, it will already be difficult to compare both. Thanks for this video!
@@juhoclick You got it! And you achieved exactly that. Good bottomline as well. The recipes are good, great even, but to really match them in all lighting conditions they need some tweaks.
Great video comparison, been using Fujis for many years, been playing around simulations as well, I find Classic Negative to be more "filmic" style ... try the following, Classic Neg, Grain Strong & Large, DR 400 (Base ISO @640) H-2, S-2, Color +4, WB Auto R-2, B-5, and keep the exp comp above +1. Enjoy
I got a cheap 3d printed lens that repurposed a disposable camera lens for my X-T20, and that crappy plastic adds so much to making the image more organic. I think the x100 VI Lens is just so well designed and sharp that it instantly feels hyper clinical when compared side by side directly to film.
I feel like Fuji needs to make more simulations with more severe color casts. Like they have sims that are supposed to be neutral (provia, reala ace, pro neg) that don’t do very much interesting with the colors. Then they have some that have more interesting colors baked in, like classic chrome, nostalgic neg and especially classic neg. They need more of the latter category! Many of the photos in this comparison shows that the digital camera just makes the most grey and boring edit to the raw data, while the film ones have such a nice color to them.
Nice video man ! As a Fuji owner + user, along with some other brands...one thing I will say and have always felt...Fuji simulations are good / solid, but they always still need SOMETHING. Obviously we all have posted SOOC Fuji images but, I believe we ALL still wanted to give the images something lol. Even a slight adjustment, of something. Temp / contrast / more grain / shadows, something. I don't know what it is or why that is lol. I'm on the X-T5 right now and love it but, I'm also shooting something else...where I truly have been getting it SOOC and not want or have to adjust anything. Anyway, dont wanna take up too much space...that breakfast sandwich looked amazing and that image in the canal at 4:58 was sweet !
The clarity of the film and its overall rendition of colors and contrast consistently wins over fuji x and not by a small margin...The soft look/barely defined contours, weird yellow/green cast, gives it away each time. It's high time for a new generation of sensors (other manufacturers included). This aesthetic is beginning to get old and no resolution race will help color separation issues and flat images.
Legit video mate :) Do you remember by chance what was your white balance setting? On the part of you showing the recipe it seems to be on Color Temperature (K) but no specific value. Cheers from Paris
@@juhoclick110% yes. Very interested to see this tutorial. I’m more interested in how good your video footage looks than the picture comparisons. Some of the clips are captured from even iPhone due to the punch zooms?
@@juhoclick you are fully right. But then without editing there is IMHO quite a difference not only in grain and sharpness, which is due also to the cameras and lenses, as you pointed out, but also in colors. In other words the digital simulation is far from ideal. But maybe I am wrong, happy to be corrected! :)
@@vannoz66true true. But if you think of it that way how much would you need to edit these to make them almost identical, I think you wouldn’t need to do too much. Maybe. Idk 😂
@@juhoclick they are all nice and the classic cars are definitely an eye catcher but also often seen... so my top favorite is the mattress 03:24 and the monochrome driveway at 5:34 To me it seems as if this recipe actually shines with an overcast sky it adds to that overall softness... beautiful! 👏🏻
@@juhoclick btw I have created a collection PDF of my favorite Fuji recipes from various sources (for my personal use) with settings and images. I will add your edited Portra 400 to that PDF if I may! 😀
@@juhoclick ;) they have had now 20 years in development and copying the colors, but honestly I think the same, Fujifilm did an incredible job with the film simulations. for that reason I own a Fujifilm X System and 35mm and medium format cameras. Everyone has its benefits
real film look more contrast and saturated + warmer... fujifilm x100VI is disapointing ... it look cheap... and this is not portra and it look like fake :(
