Night & City Lights
Fujifilm film simulation recipes built for night — neon, streetlights and low light, with cool shadows and warm highlights straight out of camera.
Night is where a film simulation earns its keep. Mixed artificial light — neon, sodium streetlights, headlamps, shop windows — confuses the camera’s auto white balance and crushes shadow detail. A good night recipe takes a point of view instead of fighting the scene.
How to think about night recipes
Three moves do most of the work. Lean the white balance toward tungsten (around 3200–3700K) so artificial lights render warm and the rest of the frame falls cool — that teal-and-orange split is the whole cinematic-night look. Protect the highlights (Highlight −1 to −2) so signs and lamps don’t clip to white blobs. And stop fighting noise — push ISO freely and let grain do aesthetic work; clean digital night shots look sterile, grainy ones look like film.
Classic Chrome and Eterna are the natural bases here — muted enough that neon doesn’t go cartoonish. Save the punchy daylight simulations for the day.
Recipes for Night & City Lights
6 entries
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Emulates CineStill 800T
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.
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Emulates Bleach bypass / silver-retention film processing
Eterna Bleach Bypass: Gritty Cinematic
A drained, high-contrast Eterna Bleach Bypass recipe with metallic highlights and heavy mood — built for rain, concrete and night streets.
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Emulates Kodak Portra 800
Kodak Portra 800
A warm, punchy Classic Negative recipe emulating Kodak Portra 800 for tungsten and mixed evening light, with STRONG large grain and DR400 to hold skin under dim conditions.
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Emulates Ilford Delta 3200
Ilford Delta 3200
A high-ISO Acros monochrome recipe with Strong/Large grain and open shadows, built for concerts, bars and available-darkness night streets where grain is the subject.
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Emulates Kodak Vision3 500T (5219)
Vision3 500T
A restrained Eterna night-cinema recipe emulating Kodak Vision3 500T: cool teal shadows, warm orange practicals, tight grain, DR400 open blacks.
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Emulates Fujifilm Natura 1600
Natura 1600
A grain-forward, ambient-warm Classic Negative recipe for available-darkness night snapshots — Fujifilm's take on the cult Natura 1600 colour negative.