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I’ve been meaning to revisit Kodak Portra 400 for some time now. As you may know, I already have a
Kodak Portra 400 recipe (https://fujixweekly.com/2018/05/30/my-fujifilm-x100f-kodak-portra-400-
film-simulation-recipe/), which I created two years ago, but it requires a difficult-to-achieve custom
white balance measurement. I was never really satisfied with that recipe, even though it can produce
interesting results. I have been eager to create a new Portra 400 recipe, and, In fact, I’ve tried a couple of
times, but without success.

My Fujifilm X-T30 Kodak Portra 400 Film

Simulation Recipe
May 10 by Ritchie Roesch

Blue Sky Day – Syracuse, UT – Fujifilm X-T30 “Kodak Portra 400”

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Around The Bend – Layton, UT – Fujifilm X-T30 “Kodak Portra 400”

Portra 400, which is a color negative film, was introduced by Kodak in 1998. It was redesign in 2006 and
again in 2010. As the name implies, it’s intended for portrait photography, but can be used for many
other types of photography. It’s similar to Portra 160, but with more contrast, saturation and grain.
Believe it or not, ISO 400 was considered “high ISO” by many photographers back in the film days, and
Portra 400 was one of the absolute best “high ISO” color films ever made. Like all films, results can vary
greatly depending on how it’s shot, developed and printed or scanned, and even which version of the
film you’re talking about. Interestingly, Kodak briefly made a black-and-white version of Portra 400!

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Mountain in the Evening Light – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X-T30

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A Fuji X Weekly reader suggested to me that if I use my Kodak Portra 160 recipe
(https://fujixweekly.com/2020/04/03/my-fujifilm-x-t30-kodak-portra-160-film-simulation-recipe/),
except increase Shadow, Highlight and Color by one, that should be pretty close to Portra 400. Indeed it
is! I liked what I saw, but I played around with the settings more to see if I could improve on it. Turns
out not much needed to be tweaked. I liked the results better with Color Chrome Effect
(https://fujixweekly.com/2019/04/03/fujifilm-x-t30-new-feature-color-chrome-effect/) set to Strong,
but if you have an X-Trans III camera, which doesn’t have that feature, you can still use this recipe, but it
will look slightly different. The only other change that I made was I set Grain to Strong.

Classic Chrome
Dynamic Range: DR-Auto
Highlight: -1
Shadow: -1
Color: +2
Noise Reduction: -4
Sharpening: -2
Grain Effect: Strong
Color Chrome Effect: Strong
White Balance: Daylight, +4 Red & -5 Blue Reeds To The Sky – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X-T30
ISO: Auto, up to ISO 6400
Exposure Compensation: +2/3 to +1 (typically)

Example photographs, all camera-made JPEGs using this Kodak Portra 400 film simulation recipe on my
Fujifilm X-T30 (https://fujixweekly.com/2019/04/06/review-fujifilm-x-t30-better-jpegs/):

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Jensen Pond – Syracuse, UT – Fujifilm X-T30 Paved Trail – Layton, UT – Fujifilm X-T30

Water Beyond The Trees – Layton, UT – Fujifilm X-T30 Spring Green & White – Layton, UT – Fujifilm X-T30

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Fries in the Sky – Syracuse, UT – Fujifilm X-T30 Evening Suburban Home – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X-T30

Royal Lunch – Layton, UT – Fujifilm X-T30 Boy in the Striped Light – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X-T30

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Boy Sitting – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X-T30 Pink Tree Bloom – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X-T30

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Sunlight Through The Pink Blooms – Farmington, UT – Fujifilm X-T30

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Ritchie Roesch · May 24
You are welcome!

19 comments Reply

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Khürt Williams · June 5

Even though I have never shot a roll of Portra, I just put this in my camera to try this weekend and I
Rob · May 17 ordered a roll of Portra 400 to try in my Pentax ES II.
Loving this new Portra 400 recipe.. You put so much time and effort into your work.. I alone
Reply
appreciate your time & effort and applaud you sir!
Ritchie Roesch · June 5
Reply Awesome! You’ll have to let me know how it goes.
Ritchie Roesch · May 18
Reply
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words of encouragement!
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Robert · May 18
Thank you, I’m very happy with this recipe. And bought you coffee via PayPal.
I would love to see you mimic a recipe of Jon Siegel’s Tokio night shots.
https://www.flickr.com/people/jonsiegel/ brendonbosphotography · August 23
Thank you for sharing all you’ve learned and making these recipes available. Much appreciated. I am
Reply interested to see that you leave the sharpening levels quite low for most combinations. Do you
Ritchie Roesch · May 18 recommend, generally, keeping sharpening below 0 for fujix jpegs?
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I’ll take a look at Jon Siegel’s pictures.
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Reply Ritchie Roesch · August 23
The different sensors handle sharpening differently. X-Trans IV is a little better than X-Trans III in
this regard. With X-Trans IV you can set Sharpness to +4 and it still looks fine (although that
might be too sharp), but on X-Trans III you’d see artifacts at +4.

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