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Cinematic Looks
The print stocks films were actually projected on, plus the negative films that feed them.
A cinematic grade is not a colour preference, it is a specific contrast curve: dense blacks with a slight teal lean, warm highlights, and a shoulder that compresses the top end rather than clipping it. That curve comes from cinema print stock — the emulsion a finished film is printed onto for projection. Colourists apply it as the last node over already-balanced footage. Applied to a straight photograph it can look heavy; applied to flat, corrected video it is the foundation of the look.
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Kodak 2383 Print
The standard cinema print stock — what a film actually looked like projected in a cinema.
3 renderings
Kodak 2393 Print
A punchier Kodak print emulsion — 2383 with the contrast and saturation raised.
3 renderings
Fuji 3510 Print
Fuji's cinema print stock — cooler and greener than Kodak's equivalent.
3 renderings
Fuji 3513 Print
A contrastier Fuji print stock.
3 renderings
Kodak Portra 400
The default modern portrait film: warm, forgiving skin tones and a very long highlight roll-off.
16 renderings
Fuji X-Trans III Classic Chrome
Fujifilm's documentary simulation — muted colour and hard shadows, evoking Kodachrome.
1 rendering