Replicating Fujifilm JPG colors from raw files?

nicokaiser · January 3, 2023, 6:14pm

Classic Chrome, but as a dtstyle for Sigmoid

I don’t know if this fits here… I was looking for a style that loosely resembles Fuji‘s Classic Chrome simulation and found a solution that works pretty good for my needs:

I really like the characteristics of the new Sigmoid module, I was never able to get similar results with Filmic. Sigmoid surely does some things different than the Fuji engine, but I am fine with this discrepancy, after all I am not looking for an exact replication but rather its “direction”.

Instead of a 3D LUT, I wanted to have a normal LUT that fits in a dtstyle, so I do not have to fiddle around with PNG file locations and its complexity.

What I came up with is a variant of Stuart Sowerby’s “Fuji XTrans II V3” LUTs, converted to a dtstyle using manu-mannattil/clut2dtstyle. The newer XTrans III LUTs cannot be used with Sigmoid, since they rely on their own base curve and do not play very well with Sigmoid. But the “XTrans II V3” looks very good to me:

Enable Sigmoid, adjust contrast to about 1.8 and adjust hue conservation to your liking
Enable the color lookup table module with this preset
If you want to compensate for the heavy desaturation (which Classic Chrome is famous for), use the color balance rgb module and add about 20% global saturation.

Fuji XTrans II - Classic Chrome v3.dtstyle (2.1 KB)

Examples: