How To Install Film Simulations On Your Fujifilm Camera

When I first got my Fujifilm camera I struggled for ages actually understanding how film simulations were applied. I made this video to hopefully help some others with this same frustration. Check out some of my other videos if you want to see my favourite recipes.

[@mattbray_studio]

Thanks man, you saved me from going insane

[@marylanddronin4968]

you would think in todays tech this would be much simpler thank you
great video

[@JayWalsh]

If youre on an older camera (my case, the X-T3) you'll have some workarounds.
1. You won't see the red dots on your changes.
2. Once you've input your recipe, press the LEFT button on the back of your camera. You'll then be prompted to SAVE your setting.
3. The +/- RB buttons don't work in the edit mode. After you've saved your recipe go back to SELECT SETTING and then go to WB. Choose the same WB for your recipe and press the RIGHT button on the back of your camera. Then you can access the RB settings.
NOTE: you can only set one RB setting per WB setting. Meaning, if you set it for AUTO WB, then every recipe using AUTO will have that setting. But you can set a different one for each setting (Auto, Daylight, Kelvin, etc).

[@nim_19]

You’re my hero

[@masonpfluke6607]

This was really helpful! I’d love to see more simulations you have and this one in use!

[@anewcareerinanewtown]

Nice demo - I've forgotten all this and I'll definitely use - and that save thing took me an age to get right when I first tried it !

[@elnarsattarov8689]

Thanks, man! I’m two years into Fuji and film simulations finally make sense!

[@ChrisWatkinsMedia]

Haha that’s exactly how I felt!

[@hanslakuse9497]

Great video, Chris. I use the simulations on my X100V and X-T4. What I find frustrating is when changing the WB or use color shift it affects my original film simulations too. So setting up a new recipe based on Velvia, with WB to daylight and a shift of -R4 and -2B it affects my original Velvia setting too. Or I must be doing something wrong... That's why I stopped with film simulations. Because when I wanted to use a regular film simulation, say Astia, and I have already a custom setting based on Astia, it uses these setting too when selection the original film simulation.

[@thaliabk]

Amazing video,
Explaining quickly and easily

[@user-nx6uc9ee4z]

Thank you mate!!! this was very helpful

[@rainc7314]

Thanks! A great how to!

[@BeatrizPaula]

Thank you so much for the video! However, when I try to save a custom setting, the option is greyed out - do you know why it may be?
Also wanted to ask you if it's possible to use custom recipes in auto mode? Thank you!

[@alifeofimages]

Thanks Chris very helpful one thing I came up against is that the save settings was greyed out on my T5. However, it seems to save the settings very odd not sure of its a firmware bug.

[@georgestiros4392]

hello great video. Just got an XH1 with an 18 to 135 lens. Lost with the Fuji color profiles......a Leica user...so this is confusing. Is there possibly a way to see firmware on this camera?

[@jigggro]

Hi All. Is this available on the x-t4 ?

[@jonnyleemills]

Thanks, any reason why Clatiry is grayed out for me? Cheers

[@chicagoangler]

Is this adding to the already existing film sims, or is it editing and replacing one of the film sims?

[@totsukanoyata1394]

Your film simulation look so good, can you share it too sir😁🙏🏽

[@astrid4275]

i can't press the save the changes button. it's grey out, idk what to do, please how can i click the save button

[@Kimberliahcocoa]

I had this issue, too. Try resetting your camera first, then input the simulation recipe. Menu > wrench > user settings > reset > set up reset

[@emabrkic]

Sorry but did you figure this out? I’m having trouble for days now and just can’t figure it out. I’ve done the full reset and still nothing

[@Kimberliahcocoa]

@@emabrkiceach setting should be marked with a red dot when changed. Does that happen for you? If not, that’s an indicator that the saving function is blocked. Not sure why that is, though.

[@tomkryzz]

EDIT: I found out why. Most probably you have like me AUTO UPDATE CUSTOM SETTINGS on enable.
The save option is greyed out for me too, also there are no red dots, when I make changes, BUT the custom settings are saved anyway.

[@Thisnotmysandwich]

Doesn't work on XE-2 model. Not able to save custom white balance values; e.g., stuck on default R:0 B:0

[@hoanao2835]

bruh my camera dont have grain effect option and many others options too

[@asafdayan2900]

its not really working on my x-h2s.

[@PaulJohnsonUK]

Is there not a way to do this on your computer and then sync them to your camera? Or download them from somewhere and install? Surely this is possible.

[@ChrisWatkinsMedia]

Unfortunately not.

[@sellis2838]

This isn’t working for me 😢
Nothing shows red when I change it and it all goes back to the factory presets 👎🏼

[@zaydmah31]

u need to do give way

[@oncameramastery]

Yikes, fuji made that difficult! 😂

[@ChrisWatkinsMedia]

Haha indeed!

[@MindYour-cs9bm]

I'm having trouble getting fancyzones to work like yours. I really need to become more productive. The widows are not showing that much area like yours are. Can you tell me how to fix this? Also, your content is great.

[@GurvinderSingh-rs6kq]

I think you can only save 7 recipes and not 10. Am I missing something? Thanks for the quick intro to simulations, really helpful.

[@dreamertom]

@@GurvinderSingh-rs6kq you can save just 7 recipes

[@Dicktopus]

Thank you