Monochrome looks

Monochrome is Fujifilm's straight black-and-white conversion — a cleaner, more linear rendering than Acros, without the film-modeled grain or the held shadow density. Tones map faithfully from the color scene, making it the more literal of the two monochrome simulations.

That neutrality has its uses: where Acros imposes a look, Monochrome takes direction. With the same +Yellow, +Red and +Green filter variants and the full range of highlight, shadow and grain settings, it can be steered anywhere from soft high-key portraits to hard documentary contrast — which is exactly how the community's Monochrome recipes use it.