A set of Lightroom presets for iPhone and all digital cameras, built from measured colors, spectral graphs, tone curves and engineering and historical archives, not amateur guesswork.
Claude AI assisted.
Two presets and the camera profile behind them. Tell me where to send the links and they arrive in a moment. Capture One versions are coming.
Soft, pastel, a little green in the shadows, with grain. Works on any camera with Adobe Color; no extra profile needed.
A 1970s–90s reproduction: lifted toe, warm drift, coarse grain. Works with the Adobe Color profile in Lightroom.
A dual-illuminant DNG profile built from Kodak’s published spectral dye-density data and a ColorChecker measured on my own M9. Ships with its matching preset — it needs both.
A preset moves colors your camera has already decided on. A camera profile works further back — at the point where raw sensor data first becomes color. That is where most of this look actually lives, and almost nobody gives one away. It takes two files and a restart.
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/
Windows: %APPDATA%\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\
Quit it completely and reopen. Lightroom caches profiles hard and will not pick up a new one until you do.
Import the XMP as usual and apply it. It selects the profile for you. You should see “Kodachrome 64 — Leica M9 v3” in the Profile box.
Built for the Leica M9 and its Kodak KAF-18500 CCD. A DNG profile only offers itself to cameras it was built for, so on other bodies the profile stays hidden and the preset still works on its own.
One thank-you coffee gets you both editions. As soon as you’ve donated you’ll be sent straight to the download page.
For photos shot on iPhone. Works in the free Lightroom Mobile app.
For Lightroom on your computer, with files from any digital camera. Tuned on the Leica M9 CCD.
A thank-you for my work, paid securely through Donorbox. Free for your own photographs; please don’t resell or redistribute the files.
Same photograph, one click of a preset. Drag the handle, or use the arrow keys.
Before
Kodachrome 64 Period
The same street, the same light. Drag the handle to compare Kodachrome 64 Period with Fuji 400H.
Kodachrome
Fuji 400H
Kodachrome was balanced for 3200K tungsten projection, so the warmth people remember is a correction, not a filter effect. The presets are built around that idea. Grain amounts come from Kodak’s E-55 datasheet.
Not nostalgia, but a specific density and restraint that modern files give up too easily.
The presets behind my infrared work are on the way, and Capture One versions are coming too. Join the list and you’ll get one email when they’re released.
New presets, the work behind them, and how each one was measured — posted as they happen.
Kodachrome is a trademark of Eastman Kodak Company. The K64 is an independent project and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Kodak.
