TIL that Fuji’s raw studio software has perfectly nice support for saving and editing film simulation recipes. It’s been there all along! I exclusively used Lightroom when I primarily made raw images, so I never thought to explore it.
The software isn’t so much for full raw development, but rather for editing, applying and saving the C1-C7 film preset modes that the camera uses to render JPGs. You can do all that on the camera, and in fact it’s what I’ve done … for years! But using the desktop app is easier and much more effective than trying to edit development settings on the camera. For an all-JPG photographer, it’s super useful to be able to test the effects of different film settings on the big screen, and then store them for use while shooting! On top of that, the studio software can store more preset simulations than the camera can keep at a time, so you can keep a library of favorites that are easy to come back to.
Fuji’s really leaving adoration and acclaim on the table by not making a better mobile app to do all this (like this quite good-looking iOS app)!
