A notice for serious photographers
If you shoot RAW, own a grey card, or have opinions about what Classic Chrome gets wrong about Kodachrome — this page is not for you, and reading on will only upset you. Everything here is simplified on purpose. Your corrections are technically correct and will be cheerfully ignored, and holding a different opinion from everyone else does not make it a better one. Everyone else: come in.
Fujifilm makes twenty. You need about five.
Film simulations change how the camera makes the picture — the colours, the mood. They work like the filters on a phone, except you choose before the shot instead of after, and each picture keeps the look it was taken with. It’s only a setting: there’s no wrong choice, nothing gets damaged, and you can change it as often as you like — even between two shots.
The film simulation sets the overall look. These other settings, in the same menu, fix specific problems.
You don’t need any of them. But when a picture isn’t right and you can’t say why, one of these is usually the reason. Look for the complaint, not the setting name.
Once a combination works, save it. In the menu, Edit/Save Custom Setting stores the look and every adjustment together in a numbered slot — C1, C2 and so on. After that you switch between whole looks in one step instead of setting everything again.
Most cameras have seven slots. Some have four. Either way it’s more than you’ll use.