Ultramax Electro

Provia

5 Apr

As some of you might know, I recently began my film photography journey. For my third roll of film I decided to finally dip my toe into the world of Kodak, Kodak Ultramax 400 to be precise. I loaded my Yashica Electro 35 GTN with a roll and headed down to Dublin for the day to capture what I found. Honestly this was probably the most fun day of photography I have maybe ever had, stepping outside my comfort zone, approaching and talking to strangers and trying my best to seem like I knew what I was doing.

In between shooting some street portraits with my film camera, I made sure to also pop a few RAW images with my Fujifilm X-T4. Similarly to the ‘XP2 Electro’ and ‘Fujipop Trio’ recipes, after I received my scans back I opened the RAW images in Fujifilm X RAW Studio and created a new recipe getting as close to the results of my roll of film as I could!

The result is my new recipe ‘Ultramax Electro’. Check out some examples below…

I am super happy with the result of the recipe. Just like my Kodak Ultramax 400 scans - these images have a heavy grain, a lot of saturation through all colours on the spectrum, good contrast and a definite film like tone.

You can check out the results from the roll in the video below if you’d like to compare… spoiler I think this recipe is pretty damn close!