I’ve been shooting film for a while and have been looking forward to creating a motion picture film recipe for Fujifilm cameras. This is one of the
film simulation recipes for night photography called ‘Cine Obscura’, a new addition to the
Obscura recipes. If you haven’t heard of any Obscura recipes, you can check out
Vision Obscura and
Carbon Obscura.
If you don’t have a film camera to enjoy shooting motion picture films, you can use the Cine Obscura motion picture film recipe on your Fujifilm camera instead.
Cine Obscura is probably one of the best low-light film recipes I’ve ever created, inspired by the Eastman Kodak motion picture film. Made with the Classic Negative as base film simulation, this recipe can create similar colour to the motion picture film. If you like the CineStill 800T or Kodak Vision3 500T, this Cine Obscura film recipe for Fujifilm is the best low-light camera setting.
To get more of the movie tone, it is best used along with any diffusion filters out there, whether from K&F, Tiffen or Moment. You can also get the highest density to make your a lot more dreamy in your photos.
Shooting with the base Classic Negative film simulation at night might add noise if the ISO is too high, so you can bump down the film grain level to Weak/Small or turn it off entirely if you like. The motion picture film recipe Cine Obscura is created only for night photography or videography. It is not suitable for daylight use because you might end up getting a really ‘cool’ mood in your images.
