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Seeking the limits with the Fuji Acros B&W film simulation in jpg out of the camera, no photo shop or simular programs used, when needed for slight light corrections Windows Photo editor used.

ACROS + now with Green filter (was Red filter in previous Fuji Acros film simulation chapter)

highlights           +1

Shadow now     +3 (was +2 in previous Fuji Acros film simulation chapter)

Sharpness            +2 ((was +1 in previous Fuji Acros film simulation chapter)

Noise reduction       0,

Shot with an 100mm F2,8 single coated Hugo Meyer Orestor (Zebra) lens made from 1966 till 1972, later same lens in black was sold as a Pentagon lens. They are both optical indentcal, however the first (the zebra) has an aperture with 15 rounded blades and therefor excelent bokeh at every aperture, the later version has only 6 blades, and gives from full opening a hexagonal opening which gives a harsher bokeh.

www.deviantart.com/pagan-live-…

Hugo Meyer Orestor (Zebra) 100mm F2,8 lens, Pentax forum user review:

www.pentaxforums.com/userrevie…

In the Analog era i used to work mostly with ILFORD XP as black and white film, i was used to, and could read and write with this film.

But i saw some digital B&W photo's out of the camera that amazed me on flickr, so started this week with B&W ACROS film simulation and in some photo in this serie pushing it to the limit by altering settings.

Sample images www.flickr.com/groups/2939365@…

The ACROS film simulation was designed by the Fujifilm engineers to specifically emulate their black & white film. It has completely different characteristics than PROVIA in the way it handles tones & texture, especially in the shadows.

To Start with it has 4 standard modes in the camera :

ACROS

ACROS + Yellow filter

ACROS + Red Filter

And ACROS + Green filter

Besides these standard settings, i also screwed down the noise reduction to -2 or -4 , which will give sharper images provided exposure is correct, in some pictures even had the highlights +1 combined with shadows + 2 combined with ACROS + Red Filter filter which gave moody 30ties type photo's

Besides one of these settings ACROS itself also changes the output of graininess depending on the sensitivity setting. As the sensitivity gets higher, stronger grain effect becomes visible, just like the film. We have seen the advancement of high S/N ratio of digital cameras, but people generally want to take photos with lowest sensitivity possible.

In General above means its more black and white as used to be in the analog era, and less 1001 grayscales.

Already a lot has been written In Fuji Love & Fuji weekly, even the parameters to change the simulation into Ilford XP film.

see links below with lots of photo's:

ACROS in general: fujilove.com/fujifilm-acros-a-…

ACROS + filter Use: www.jmpeltier.com/acros-film-s…

and: fujixweekly.com/2019/03/07/und…

Description

Seeking the limits with the Fuji Acros B&W film simulation in jpg out of the camera, no photo shop or simular programs used, when needed for slight light corrections Windows Photo editor used.

ACROS + now with Green filter (was Red filter in previous Fuji Acros film simulation chapter)

highlights           +1

Shadow now     +3 (was +2 in previous Fuji Acros film simulation chapter)

Sharpness            +2 ((was +1 in previous Fuji Acros film simulation chapter)

Noise reduction       0,

Shot with an 100mm F2,8 single coated Hugo Meyer Orestor (Zebra) lens made from 1966 till 1972, later same lens in black was sold as a Pentagon lens. They are both optical indentcal, however the first (the zebra) has an aperture with 15 rounded blades and therefor excelent bokeh at every aperture, the later version has only 6 blades, and gives from full opening a hexagonal opening which gives a harsher bokeh.

www.deviantart.com/pagan-live-…

Hugo Meyer Orestor (Zebra) 100mm F2,8 lens, Pentax forum user review:

www.pentaxforums.com/userrevie…

In the Analog era i used to work mostly with ILFORD XP as black and white film, i was used to, and could read and write with this film.

But i saw some digital B&W photo's out of the camera that amazed me on flickr, so started this week with B&W ACROS film simulation and in some photo in this serie pushing it to the limit by altering settings.

Sample images www.flickr.com/groups/2939365@…

The ACROS film simulation was designed by the Fujifilm engineers to specifically emulate their black & white film. It has completely different characteristics than PROVIA in the way it handles tones & texture, especially in the shadows.

To Start with it has 4 standard modes in the camera :

ACROS

ACROS + Yellow filter

ACROS + Red Filter

And ACROS + Green filter

Besides these standard settings, i also screwed down the noise reduction to -2 or -4 , which will give sharper images provided exposure is correct, in some pictures even had the highlights +1 combined with shadows + 2 combined with ACROS + Red Filter filter which gave moody 30ties type photo's

Besides one of these settings ACROS itself also changes the output of graininess depending on the sensitivity setting. As the sensitivity gets higher, stronger grain effect becomes visible, just like the film. We have seen the advancement of high S/N ratio of digital cameras, but people generally want to take photos with lowest sensitivity possible.

In General above means its more black and white as used to be in the analog era, and less 1001 grayscales.

Already a lot has been written In Fuji Love & Fuji weekly, even the parameters to change the simulation into Ilford XP film.

see links below with lots of photo's:

ACROS in general: fujilove.com/fujifilm-acros-a-…

ACROS + filter Use: www.jmpeltier.com/acros-film-s…

and: fujixweekly.com/2019/03/07/und…