Kindle: A Fujifilm X100V Film Recipe (In-Camera JPEG + Lightroom/RAW Guide)

Before and after view of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II dome in Milan, showcasing a transformation with enhanced colors and lighting through the Kindle filter.

Visitors walk through the arched passage of the Louvre in Paris, bathed in warm lighting, showcasing a transformation from natural light to a glowing ambiance.

A vibrant transformation of Milan's Galleria arcade vault is showcased through before and after images, highlighting enhanced warmth and contrast in the iconic architectural masterpiece.

The Look

This cycle's reference wasn't a landscape or a street scene, it was a soaring, ribbed transit-hall ceiling radiating warm amber light from a single glowing point, with a crowd reduced to near-silhouette on the dark floor below. The result is a radiant, high-contrast "warm core, crushed edges" aesthetic: a near-monochromatic wash of gold and amber in the highlights, deep, almost-black shadows that hold just enough detail to read as shapes, and strong architectural micro-contrast. Kindle is built for grand interiors, transit halls, market stalls, and any scene organized around one dominant light source, but it holds up well on warm-lit architecture generally.

Fujifilm X100V In-Camera Recipe

Classic Negative gives the deep, slightly gritty contrast this look needs, with a naturally warm-leaning highlight cast and textured, desaturated shadows, Velvia or Eterna Bleach Bypass would either oversaturate the palette or fight the recipe's warm-dominant color story.

Setting	Value	Notes
Film Simulation	Classic Negative	Deep contrast, warm-leaning highlights, textured shadows -- the closest built-in match to a radiant amber interior.
Dynamic Range	DR400	Holds detail in both the blazing ceiling light and the near-black crowd/floor below it.
Highlight Tone	-2	Softens the brightest point of the light source so it glows rather than clips.
Shadow Tone	+2	Crushes the shadows for the silhouette-heavy floor and crowd.
Color	+1	Keeps the amber/gold richness from reading flat under Classic Negative's baseline desaturation.
Sharpness	+1	Crisp edges for ribbed architectural ceilings.
Noise Reduction	-3	Light touch -- lets natural grain and texture show, especially in the shadow floor.
Grain Effect	Strong, Large	Gritty, photojournalistic texture for the cavernous, high-ISO interior mood.
Color Chrome Effect	Strong	Deepens saturated ambers and golds without blowing them out.
Color Chrome FX Blue	Weak	This scene is warm-dominant with very little blue -- kept weak so it doesn't fight the amber cast.
White Balance	Auto, R: +4, B: -2	Pushes the image warmer/more amber, with only a light pull against blue.
ISO	Auto (200-6400)	Handheld interior shooting -- expect the upper end of the range.
Exposure Comp.	-1 to -1 1/3	Underexpose to protect the highlight core and deepen the shadow crush.

Lightroom / RAW Preset

The Lightroom version reconstructs the same radiant-core look for RAW files, strong contrast, a genuinely crushed (not lifted) shadow curve, and a highlight-dominant warm/cool split that favors the gold almost entirely.

Setting	Value	Notes
Profile	Adobe Color	Neutral starting point.
Exposure	-0.20	Slight underexposure to protect the highlight core.
Contrast	+30	Strong punch -- the defining trait of this look.
Highlights	-55	Protects the blazing central light source from clipping.
Shadows	-15	A genuine crush, not a lift -- the opposite of an HDR interior treatment.
Whites	0	Left neutral; the Highlights slider does the protecting.
Blacks	-15	Deepens blacks for the silhouette-heavy floor and crowd.
Temperature	+15	Strong warm push toward the amber/gold cast.
Tint	+4	Slight magenta to keep the warm cast from drifting green under mixed lighting.
Vibrance	+20	Rich ambers and golds without oversaturating skin tones.
Saturation	+5	Small overall lift to reinforce the richness.
Clarity	+20	Strong local contrast/micro-contrast for ribbed ceiling texture.
Dehaze	+12	Cuts through the light bloom around the central glow and deepens its edges.
Vignette	-20	Reinforces the frame's natural architectural draw toward the radiant center.

Tone Curve

A strong, asymmetric S-curve: shadows and darks pulled well down toward black, midtones held with a touch of extra punch, and the very top of the highlight range rolled off to protect the light source from clipping. Highlights: rolled off. Lights: slight increase. Darks: strong decrease. Shadows: strong decrease.

HSL / Color Mixer

Red Hue 0, Saturation +10. Orange Hue +5, Saturation +20, Luminance +5 (the dominant ceiling glow). Yellow Hue -5, Saturation +15. Green Hue -15, Saturation -25 (suppresses any green cast from mixed station lighting). Aqua Hue -10, Saturation -10. Blue Hue 0, Saturation -15, Luminance -10 (keeps shadows neutral-cool and desaturated rather than pushing a true teal). Purple Hue 0, Saturation -10. Magenta Hue 0, Saturation -5.

Split Toning

Highlights: Hue 42, Saturation 18 (rich amber/gold). Shadows: Hue 230, Saturation 6 (a very light cool-neutral tint -- just enough to keep the crushed shadows from looking muddy-warm, far weaker than a true teal split). Balance: +15, strongly favoring the warm highlights since this is a highlight-dominant image rather than a balanced two-tone split.

Detail

Sharpening -- Amount: 50, Radius: 1.0, Detail: 30, Masking: 15. Noise Reduction -- Luminance: 18, Detail: 50, Contrast: 5, Color: 25, Color Detail: 50, Smoothness: 50.

Calibration

Red Primary Hue +5, Saturation +10. Green Primary Hue -10, Saturation -5. Blue Primary Hue 0, Saturation +5.

White balance is intentionally left as-shot in the .xmp preset file -- dial in warmth per scene, or match the in-camera recipe's WB shift (R+4/B-2).

Kindle Lightroom Preset.zip

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