Recipe:

• Base Picture Control: Toy

• Effect Level: 30 (Keep it subtle)

• Quick Sharp: 0

• Sharpening: +2.0

• Mid-range Sharpening: 0

• Clarity: -2.0 (Essential for making streetlights "bloom")

• Contrast: +2.0 (Night looks best with punchy, deep blacks)

• Brightness: N/A

• Saturation: +1.0

Other settings:

• White Balance: Incandescent (or 3000K–3200K)

• WB Shift: A 4.0, M 1.5 (Amber and a touch of Magenta)

• Active D-Lighting: Off

• Exposure compensation: - 0.7 or -1.3

• High ISO NR: off

This recipe is designed for night shooting, capturing the cinematic snapshot look of classic Kodak Gold—glowing streetlights, neon signs, and reflective pavement. It emphasizes warm, golden-orange light sources while keeping shadows deep, contrasty, and slightly gritty, just like the film’s behavior in low light.

Reduced clarity creates bloom around streetlights, enhanced contrast keeps blacks rich and inky, and a controlled white balance with amber and magenta shifts adds warmth to highlights while introducing subtle purple tones in the shadows. Slight underexposure and optional high-ISO grain complete the authentic nighttime Kodak Gold aesthetic.