Eterna recipes

Eterna brings Fujifilm's motion picture negative film to stills: very low saturation, low contrast, and an exceptionally long tonal range built so no frame in a scene ever clips ugly. Highlights roll off slower than any other color simulation, and shadows sit lifted and soft.

On stills that translates to a muted, cinematic calm. Colors are present but never insistent, and harsh midday light photographs like it was diffused. It's forgiving in exactly the situations that punish slide-film simulations, which makes it a favorite for video shooters and for stills in hard or flat light alike.

Eterna recipes usually push in one of two directions: embracing the flatness for moody, cinematic frames with heavy grain, or adding back contrast through tone settings to get a soft-but-finished everyday look that keeps the gentle highlight handling.