Time for a showdown. Built in film simulations versus custom film recipes, head to head, on the X-H2 and the X100VI. Same sensor, pretty sure the same processor. One camera gets the sim, the other gets the recipe.
Some background. I have been in the Fuji ecosystem about ten years. Fujifilm knows what they are doing. Velvia, Provia, Astia, these are great. But there are geniuses out there like Fuji X Weekly making recipes, and some of them are fantastic. Me, I usually let Fuji decide. I lift the shadows, tweak the contrast, done. I canceled Lightroom because of the cost. I edit on my phone.
Round one: the Ektachrome recipe on the X-H2, everybody’s favorite Kodak film, against the Velvia simulation on the X100VI. Subject was the original Frietzo here in Knoxville. I will say this: I like Velvia better as a simulation than I ever liked it as actual film. Real Velvia was just so red and green saturated, over the top.
Mid video correction, because I am a bit of a dumbass. You have to match the sim with the recipe that was built on it. So round two: Classic Chrome on the X100VI against the Portra 160 recipe on the X-H2.
Round three: Velvia sim versus Roman Fox’s vibrant recipe, on a Ford truck. I dig Roman. Although he just gave up on Fujifilm cameras for Sony, which I do not get. Fujifilm better.
Round four: Nostalgic Neg sim against Roman Fox’s Punchie recipe.
Round five, black and white: the Acros sim against my own high contrast recipe, which I named the Alan Schaller black and white recipe. Alan Schaller, good black and white photographer that Instagram seems to love. Sweet guy. Weird camera bag.
Verdict: certain ones are better than others. Including that black and white right there. I like that Alan Schaller recipe.
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