Fujifilm Colours, LUMIX Camera
My ‘Fujifake’ Attempt
Ever since diving into designing and shooting with LUTs in my LUMIX cameras, I have been obsessed with one idea… “If I create a LUT that perfectly emulates the colour of the Fujifilm Film Simulations, load it into my LUMIX camera, can I essentially turn my LUMIX camera into a full-frame Fujifilm camera?”
At the beginning of 2025 I tried just this. I took three Film Simulations (Classic Chrome, Classic Negative & Astia) studied them and tried to design LUTs for my LUMIX camera to replicate the colours. I called these LUTs the ‘Fujifake’ LUTs and you can download them for free here…
With the ‘Fujifake’ LUTs I think I got pretty close to the colours of these Film Simulations, but if I was totally honest they’re only probably about 75% of the way there. Check out this video I made about it below…
Introducing Fujify
Creating my three Fujifake LUTs earlier this year took a lot of effort with lots of testing, retesting, tweaking more tweaking etc. so since then I’ve been on the hunt for someone more skilled in this area and I think I’ve found them. Milos the founder of FUJIFY has studied the Fujifilm Film Simulations, reverse engineered them and created Lightroom Profiles for multiple cameras re-creating the Fujifilm look.
I came across FUJIFY whose Instagram at the time had 100 followers and instantly got in touch saying how I was interested in Film Sim LUTs for LUMIX and Milos got to work designing them right away. A few days later he had the Lightroom Profile and LUTs designed and sent over to me to test.
A stumbling block I hit when trying to recreate Fujifilm ‘recipes’ in my LUMIX camera with LUTs was the different combinations of COLOR CHROME AND COLOR CHROME FX BLUE settings. With these FUJIFY LUTs, Milos has not only designed a LUT for every current Fujifilm Film Simulation, but he has also included versions with Color Chrome Effect Off/Weak/Strong & Color Chrome FX Blue Off/Weak/Strong and every combination of those two together. So for every one Film Simulation LUT, there are 9 variations provided.
Getting These Fujify LUTs
I’m not getting paid or taking a cut or anything for these LUTs. Milos has done the hard work designing them and I think they are really really good and so he’s the one that should get all of the credit.
You can however use the Promo Code ‘ROSS20’ get 20% off any FUJIFY LUMIX download and if you don’t want to commit to buying, Milos has thrown up a Tester Pack for these LUTs on his website which allows you to download a few to try for free!
Why These LUTs Are Important
If you haven’t got it by now, I’m super excited by these LUTs for one main reason. When you load these LUTs into your LUMIX camera, not only can you access the colours usually reserved for Fujifilm users, but you can also unlock every single Fujifilm Recipe ever made! I think that’s pretty flippin’ awesome (even if Fujifilm won’t be happy about it.)
In this video I loaded a couple of the LUTs from the FUJIFY Complete Pack into my S9 and adjusted my settings to recreate two of the most popular Fujifilm Recipes out there… Reggie’s Portra and Classic Cuban Negative! Watch it below…
Notes From Video On Adapting Fujifilm Recipes
One quick thing to note is that with these LUTs, we can now pretty accurately replicate the colour of Fujifilm recipes, but there are a couple of stylistic settings that Fujifilm cameras have that my LUMIX cameras don’t…
Clarity
Clarity is a funny setting, it slows down shooting with a Fujifilm camera so most of the time I’ll turn that off anyway but with the likes of ‘Classic Cuban Negative’ the minus Clarity setting helps to create the dreamy look. A way around this if you’re trying to recreate a minus Clairty setting with your LUMIX camera, is to shoot with a vintage lens or use a bloom filter or something. I don’t love that hazy look anyway so I just ignore this setting.
Grain
The second setting that’s hard to replicate is the Grain setting. Fujifilm cameras currently allow for more realistic Grain settings in my opinion with their Weak/Strong Small/Large options. LUMIX cameras do allow you to add grain to your JPEGs however it’s widely known that the LOW setting is pretty much the only useable one. I would absolutely LOVE if LUMIX introduced a Grain slider setting either amount or size or both. That would be incredible but for now, my recommendations if you want Grain with your LUMIX camera, set it to LOW, if you don’t – just turn it off!
Shadows & Highlights
If you’ve downloaded these Fujify LUTs and you’re trying to dial in Fujifilm recipes for yourself, another thing to be aware of is that some of the settings will be reversed for example if a Fujifilm recipe says +2 Shadows on your LUMIX camera that will translate as -2 Shadows.
White Balance
The biggest thing that creates a look of a Fujifilm recipe is the Film Simulation but the second is the White Balance setting. If you’re plugging a Fujifilm recipe into your LUMIX camera, make sure and you’re shifting the White Balance to the correct side.
Dynamic Range
Fujifilm recipes also state the Dynamic Range setting to be used. Not many people realise but LUMIX cameras also have a setting like this called iDynamic Range. It’s not in the ‘My Photo Style’ list and it can’t currently be added like the White Balance setting. LUMIX if you’re reading this, maybe that should be included here as well?
My advice when shooting JPEGs is to have iDynamic Range set to LOW but for replicating Fujifilm recipes, if the recipe states DR100 turn iDynamic Range off, if it says DR200 set it to LOW, if it says DR400 then maybe increase to STANDARD. If the Fujifilm recipe states DR Auto that means the camera choses between DR100 & DR200 – Personally on my LUMIX camera I would keep it at LOW.
Like in Fujifilm cameras, turning this setting up on your LUMIX camera increases noise as it lifts shadows and protects highlights. If you shoot RAW with this setting on, something to note is that you’ll find it slightly underexposes your RAW images to help the iDynamic Range setting to work for the JPEGs. It’s a cool effect, definitely a good one to play with if you’re looking to get a film-like looking image straight out of camera!
Okay I think that’s everything. Check out the two Fujifilm Recipes I’ve adapted are Reggie’s Portra and Classic Cuban Negative. Check out my LUMIX version of these recipes below…
Remember you can use the Promo Code ‘ROSS20’ to get 20% off any FUJIFY LUMIX purchase and if you’d like to try before you buy, there’s even a Tester Pack on there for you take for a spin. Thanks to Milos for designing these LUTs and I’m really excited to see all the images the LUMIX community will manage to capture using them!
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