Posted on November 8, 2021 by Ritchie Roesch
I love getting an analog aesthetic right out of camera! Fujifilm X cameras offer many great tools to get film-like results straight-out-of-camera without the need to edit. By adjusting the JPEG parameters, you can create various looks that I call film simulation recipes—I have published nearly 200 of them! These settings save you time, simplify the photographic process, and make capturing pictures even more enjoyable.
“By making it possible for the photographer to observe his work and his subject simultaneously,” wrote Edwin H. Land, co-founder of Polaroid, “and by removing most of the manipulative barriers between the photographer and the photograph, it is hoped that many of the satisfactions of working in the early arts can be brought to a new group of photographers.”
Ansel Adams called it One-Step Photography, and added, “The effect of one-step processing on both amateur and professional creative photography has been revolutionary. As with all art forms, we must accept the limitations of the medium as well as revel in the advantages.”
Land and Adams were specifically talking about Polaroid pictures, but I think it applies similarly to Fujifilm X cameras and film simulation recipes. The “manipulative barriers between the photographer and the photograph” have been removed! Now you just have to decide which recipe you want to use, like picking which film to load, and start creating, without worrying about how you’re going to later manipulate the pictures, because the straight-out-of-camera pictures are pretty darn good, and don’t require manipulation. Sure, edit if you want—there’s nothing wrong with that—but you don’t have to if you don’t want to, and there’s nothing wrong with that, either. Ansel Adams called it “revolutionary” and said to “revel in the advantages.” There’s freedom in this.
All of the pictures in this article are unedited (except for perhaps some minor cropping) straight-out-of-camera JPEGs that I recently captured using a Fujifilm X camera and a film simulation recipe.
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outkasted · November 9, 2021
These look sweet af. I need to plug these in for fall street photography
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Alexander · October 24, 2023
Here’s my question about JPG printing.
I don’t really understand this thing.
As far as I know, for high quality printing you might need around 300 ppi, but Fuji JPGs have a value of 72.
Do you have any experience with this? Is 72 ppi enough for good printing? And maybe other thoughts about printing. Unfortunately, I did not find an article on this topic. Thank you.Loading...
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Ritchie Roesch · October 24, 2023
So DPI or PPI, for the most part, is a meaningless parameter. 72 is a common *placeholder* value applied to JPEGs, but you can set it to whatever you want it to be in software. DPI (dots per inch) or PPI (pixels per inch) is a value that’s only meaningful to a computer monitor and an ink printer.
Apple’s iMac 24″ 4.5K Retina display has 218 PPI, for example. So, in theory, when you are pixel-peeping on that monitor, to get the most out of the display, you’d want the JPEG to be 218 PPI or higher; however, if are aren’t pixel-peeping, it makes zero difference, because the 16mp sensor (for instance) would need to display the equivalent size of like 68″ wide (or so) to display that 72 PPI. So if you are viewing the picture at something like 400%, the difference on such a monitor might maybe be slightly noticeable (maybe), but the difference between 72 and 218 is not going to be noticeable at all when viewed normally.
For ink printers, DPI is more important, because it tells the printer how many dots of ink to put down within a certain square inch of paper. If you are printing, make sure that you have adjusted the DPI (which can be done in most any photo editing program) to what the printer is set to (300 DPI is pretty common, but some printers can do much more than that). DPI really only matters on an ink printer if you are printing full-size, and the smaller you print, the less this will matter. If you print on photographic silver halide paper (such as having a photo lab print it), DPI or PPI makes zero difference, and is meaningless.
I don’t personally like using ink printers for photography. If you bulk print—for example, sell a thousand copies of the same print—having your own printer can be cost effective, but I don’t think it has the same archival qualities or just the same quality in-general as real photographic prints (silver, not inkjet or laserjet). So I recommend using a lab to print your pictures. I have printed nice-quality 16″x24″ from 16mp JPEGs, and I’ve printed nice-quality 24″x36″ from 24/26MP JPEGs. If the picture is clean and crisp and not cropped (or only minimally), you can go even larger than those sizes… I’ve printed 30″x40″ from the 26MP sensor.
I hope this helps!
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Alexander · November 10, 2023
Thank you for this detailed answer, some things have become more clear. Have a good day!
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