Kodak Gold, taken seriously.
Ask around and you'll hear it: drugstore film. Cheap, ordinary — the stock your parents shot birthdays on.
Run it through a professional lab scanner and a different film appears. Complex color layers. Warmth that never tips into orange. Shadows that drift gently toward cyan instead of collapsing into black. That film — Kodak Gold 200 and UltraMax 400 as a Frontier actually rendered them — is what the Gold Edition rebuilds, engineered for Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw.
Every profile is constructed from linear laboratory data: real scans from the Fujifilm Frontier SP3000 and Noritsu HS 1800, the machines that defined how these films looked in print. Instead of layering a look on top of Adobe's generic color rendering, the underlying 3D-LUT architecture replaces it — correcting how each color layer responds to exposure and taming digital harshness at the source.
What's inside
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12 native profiles, tuned for normal, pushed and pulled exposure.
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Adjustable density — scale the analog character from subtle to heavy with Lightroom's profile slider.
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Utility presets for highlight softening and shadow control, preserving the characteristic Frontier shadow tones.
Warm, versatile, honest. Built for everyday photography, portraits and golden hour. Simple, reliable, intuitive.
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Sample photos by Lucas Coersten, Daniel Dittus, Felix Rödiger, Maximilian Gödecke, Phil Hoefer, André Duhme