Lomo800 Electro
After shooting a few rolls of Lomography Color Negative 35mm 800 film on my Yashica Electro 35 GTN rangefinder, I pulled in some Fujifilm RAW files (shot on my X-T4) into Fujifilm X RAW Studio with the aim of creating a recipe to mimic the look. This new recipe ‘Lomo 800 Electro’ is the result of that experiment.
One thing I noticed right away when creating this recipe was how closely Classic Chrome matched the colours of my Lomography 800 scans. This makes me think that the people of the internet are correct, that Lomography Color Negative film is actually produced by Kodak, maybe being one of their old unused stocks? It’s still a mystery but all I do know is that the Film Simulation ‘Classic Chrome’ is about 95% colour accurate to Lomography Color Negative 35mm 800 (the biggest colour difference is probably found in the yellow/green tones visible mostly in grass.)
Watch this video to see a comparison between this recipe and the actual Lomography Color Negative 800 film itself.
I am pretty happy with the results of this recipe in terms of how it replicates the look of the Lomography Color Negative 800 film stock I shot. I am however yet to head out with it loaded into one of my Fujifilm cameras and shoot directly with it.
The sharpness and clarity settings I chose for this recipe are more to recreate the soft look of my Yashica Electro 35 so I’ll be interested to put more of this film in the future, through some of the other 35mm cameras I own. Stay tuned for that!
I feel I could have got closer to the exact look of Lomography 800 if there was a +5 option for Color as Lomography 800 is such a vivid stock. I have included three different white balance shift options with this recipe. Make sure you are aware of which ones are for which lighting condition. You can stick to one if you prefer a warmer/cooler/neutral look and aren’t as concerned about replicating the actual film.
Lomo800 Electro
Classic Chrome
Dynamic Range: 200
Highlight: +1.5
Shadow: +1.5
Color: +4
Noise Reduction: -4
Sharpening: -4
Clarity: -4
Grain Effect: Strong, Large
Color Chrome Effect: Weak
Color Chrome Effect Blue: Weak
White Balance: Auto
(Overcast R1 B-3)
(Shade R2 B-5) (Sunny R4 B-5)
