Welcome to the World of VELVIA Film Simulation
Tweaking Film Simulations
Today we talk Velvia, one of the most used and appreciated film simulations out there.
But keep in mind: the Velvia we have today, is not the Velvia we had when Fujifilm started its X series journey.
Especially the red tones did tend to get super-saturated, which why when I originally used Velvia on the first generation Fujifilm X series cameras, whenever I had red colors in the frame, I actually decreased the color saturation in-camera.
But that one got fixed with the arrival of the Fujifilm X-Pro2.
Fujifilm did try to get Velvia to work also on X-Pro1 and X-T1, but the processor could not handle the too complex algorithm.
If you want to read the full “Velvia-development” story, check out this article here.
And not only Velvia: pretty much all film simulations get tweaked overtime, when the new processors allow for even more sophisticated color tuning.
The Power of Velvia
And now let’s look at the awesome results one can achieve with Velvia, but not only for landscape photography.
And we’ll do that by sharing the latest video Fuji Guy Francis did, where he brings you into the wonderful Canadian countryside and uses Velvia only to take his images, and also, we will share a stunning series of images that fellow Fujifilm X Simulation group member Antonio has shared at our massive (78,000 members) group here.
1) Fuji Guy Francis
Fuji Guy Francis dedicated this months Film Simulation to Velvia, and it’s a very nice one as he will bring you out in the stunning Canadian countryside to capture its beauty in Velvia.
And I think he is making the best use of Velvia: when a grey day is robbing nature of its wonderful colors and Velvia restores some of that beauty.
2) Antonio
Once a year, the Mexican town of Tultepec becomes the hell on earth and home to the lords of fire and pyrotechnics.
Antonio was present with his Fujifilm X-T3 and XF18-55mm and captured the event.
Here on FujiRumors I will only share three images, but you can check out the full set of images at this film simulation Facebook post and also read an article about it at magazine.exposuresop here.
3) Bonus
You might remember the “World of Film Simulation” series of articles that Fujifilm made back in 2015.
We will share the full Velvia episode again down below. Check it out if you are interested in the Velvia development story.