Most film presets try to give you one look: point a preset at a photo and get "the Portra effect" or "the Tri-X effect." That was never the goal here.

The idea behind The Classic Film Presets 2021 was to build a toolbox — not a single look, but a modular system. Real film photography was never one film, one scanner, one process. A roll of Portra scanned on a Fuji Frontier looks different from the same roll on a Noritsu, and different again from a lab print on Kodak 2383. Part of what makes analog photography feel alive is that combinatorial richness: the same negative can become a dozen different images depending on how it's developed, scanned and printed.

So instead of picking one interpretation and calling it done, the collection was built to let you choose — stack a film stock with a scanner profile, push or pull the exposure, or see what your shot would look like as a print copy on Kodak 2383 print film. It's less a filter and more a set of instruments: pick the film, pick the scanner, pick the exposure, and build the combination that fits the image in front of you.

A toolbox for every job

That's why The Classic Film Presets 2021 grew into the most complete collection in the Classic Presets lineup: over 50 presets spanning black and white and color negative films, color positive and slide stocks, creative variants, and scanner profiles pulled from real lab scans — Fuji SP3000, Noritsu HS 1800, Hasselblad Flextight X5, and the Kodak 2383 print film look. Every preset includes over- and underexposed versions, because film was never one-size-fits-all, and neither is a photograph.

Where authenticity meets versatility — that's the whole idea. Whatever the shot calls for, the toolbox has a combination for it.

Compatible with Adobe Lightroom CC (cloud), Lightroom Classic CC 7.3+, and CameraRAW 10.3+. Lightroom Mobile supported via desktop sync.

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Samples

Sample pictures by: Thomas Reichl, Lucas Coersten, Jonas Albrecht, Felix Birkenseer, Daniel Dittus, Felix Rödiger, André Duhme