CineStill 800T
A tungsten-balanced Classic Chrome recipe that emulates CineStill 800T for night and neon — cool teal shadows, warm streetlights, and heavy cinematic grain.
Night · Neon & city lights · Low light
Sample look
What this recipe is reaching for
A representative scene in the CineStill 800T register this recipe targets — the colour, contrast, and mood it tries to land straight out of camera.
AI-rendered approximation (Gemini 3 Pro Image, prompted with the recipe's Fuji simulation and settings). Not a photograph shot with this recipe — real shots will vary with your light and subject.
Settings
15 parameters
Look
- Film Simulation
- Classic Chrome
- Dynamic Range
- DR400
Tone
- Highlight
- −2
- Shadow
- +1
Color
- Color
- +1
- White Balance
- Incandescent / ~3400K
- WB Shift
- Red −1 · Blue +2
- Color Chrome FX
- Strong
- Color Chrome FX Blue
- Strong
Detail
- Sharpness
- −2
- Noise Reduction
- −3
- Clarity
- 0
Texture
- Grain Effect
- Strong, Large
Exposure
- ISO
- Auto, up to ISO 12800
- Exposure Comp.
- 0 to +2/3 EV
CineStill 800T is the film of neon-lit streets and rain-slick pavement after dark. It’s a tungsten-balanced cinema stock, so under city light it splits the frame into cool teal shadows and warm, glowing lights — the unmistakable night-cinema palette. This recipe rebuilds that on Fujifilm.
Why Classic Chrome at 3400K
Classic Chrome’s muted, slightly desaturated character is the right canvas for night — it keeps neon from blowing out into cartoon colour. The tungsten-leaning white balance (~3400K) is what does the heavy lifting: it neutralises streetlights and headlamps while letting everything else fall cool. A small WB shift of Red −1 / Blue +2 deepens the teal in the shadows without tipping the whole frame green.
Color Chrome FX Strong and Color Chrome FX Blue Strong enrich the deep blues and the saturated edges of light sources — the closest in-camera approximation of 800T’s dense colour and its halation bloom. Highlight −2 keeps bright signs and lamps from clipping; Shadow +1 holds a little detail in the dark.
Texture is the point
800T is grainy, and that’s the charm. Strong, large grain plus Sharpness −2 and Noise Reduction −3 give the frame a soft, photochemical texture instead of clean digital noise. Push ISO freely — up to 12800 — because the grain is doing aesthetic work, not just survival.
How to shoot it
Look for mixed light: shop windows, signage, headlights, wet streets that catch reflections. Expose for the shadows (0 to +2/3 EV) and let the lights bloom. The richer the artificial light in the scene, the more the teal-and-orange separation sings.
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Questions
3 answers
CineStill 800T is a tungsten-balanced cinema film. Shot under city light at night it gives cool, teal-leaning shadows, warm orange streetlights, and a soft red 'halation' glow around bright points.
800T is balanced for 3200K tungsten light. Setting white balance near 3400K renders artificial lights neutral-to-warm and pushes the rest of the frame cool — the exact teal-and-orange split that defines the look.
It's built for night and mixed artificial light. In daylight the tungsten balance reads very blue — pair daylight scenes with a warmer recipe instead.