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Best Film Looks for Landscape

Saturation, microcontrast and deep skies — where slide film earned its reputation.

Landscape is the one genre where clipping highlights is often acceptable and saturation is usually welcome, which is why transparency film ruled it for forty years. The choice mostly comes down to which end of the spectrum you want pushed: Fuji drives greens and reds, Kodak drives blues and cyans. For scenes with bright sky you cannot afford to lose, the saturated colour negative films give you most of the punch and keep the highlight detail.

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22 looks in this selection

Agfa Ultra Color 100 film emulation preview

Agfa Ultra Color 100

Agfa's extreme-saturation negative film — louder than most slide films.

1 rendering
Fuji 400H film emulation preview

Fuji 400H

The discontinued cult wedding film: cool, minty greens and pale, airy skin.

4 renderings
Fuji Neopan Acros 100 film emulation preview

Fuji Neopan Acros 100

Fuji's fine-grain film, famous for having essentially no reciprocity failure.

1 rendering
Fuji Provia 100F film emulation preview

Fuji Provia 100F

The neutral Fuji slide film: accurate colour, fine grain, high but controlled contrast.

2 renderings
Fuji Superia 100 film emulation preview

Fuji Superia 100

The slowest Superia: the same green-forward palette with finer grain and more contrast.

4 renderings
Fuji Velvia 100 film emulation preview

Fuji Velvia 100

A faster, slightly tamer Velvia with a cooler bias than the original 50.

1 rendering
Fuji Velvia 50 film emulation preview

Fuji Velvia 50

The most saturated colour film ever widely sold — the landscape photographer's signature.

1 rendering
Fuji X-Trans III Acros film emulation preview

Fuji X-Trans III Acros

Fujifilm's premium monochrome simulation, with optional colour filters.

4 renderings
Fuji X-Trans III Velvia film emulation preview

Fuji X-Trans III Velvia

The high-saturation simulation, modelled on the Velvia transparency film.

1 rendering
Ilford Delta 100 film emulation preview

Ilford Delta 100

Ilford's fine-grain tabular film — crisp, clean and slightly contrastier than T-Max 100.

1 rendering
Ilford FP4 Plus 125 film emulation preview

Ilford FP4 Plus 125

A classic-grain medium-speed film with long, gentle tonality.

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Ilford Pan F Plus 50 film emulation preview

Ilford Pan F Plus 50

Ilford's slowest film: near-grainless, high contrast, demanding.

1 rendering
Kodak Ektachrome 100VS film emulation preview

Kodak Ektachrome 100VS

Kodak's answer to Velvia: Very Saturated Ektachrome with a cooler, bluer bias.

2 renderings
Kodak Ektar 100 film emulation preview

Kodak Ektar 100

The most saturated colour negative film Kodak makes — slide-film punch with negative latitude.

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Kodak Elite Extracolor 100 film emulation preview

Kodak Elite Extracolor 100

Elite Chrome with the saturation deliberately overdriven.

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Kodak HIE Infrared film emulation preview

Kodak HIE Infrared

True infrared film: white foliage, black skies, glowing halation around highlights.

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Kodak Kodachrome 25 film emulation preview

Kodak Kodachrome 25

The slowest and finest-grained Kodachrome, and the sharpest colour film of its era.

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Kodak T-Max 100 film emulation preview

Kodak T-Max 100

Extremely fine-grained tabular film — close to grainless at normal enlargements.

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Kodak T-Max 400 film emulation preview

Kodak T-Max 400

Modern tabular-grain film: far finer grain than Tri-X at the same speed.

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Rollei IR 400 film emulation preview

Rollei IR 400

A modern infrared-sensitive film — the HIE effect, tamed.

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Rollei Ortho 25 film emulation preview

Rollei Ortho 25

Orthochromatic film — blind to red, so it renders the world the way pre-1900 photographs did.

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Rollei Retro 80S film emulation preview

Rollei Retro 80S

A fine-grained film with extended red sensitivity and a hard, graphic tonality.

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