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Actually, it's surprisingly hard. I had the same opinion as you before I actually tried shooting on a Fuji. I took a shot of a vibrant orange car and imported

Actually, it's surprisingly hard. I had the same opinion as you before I actually tried shooting on a Fuji. I took a shot of a vibrant orange car and imported it into Lightroom. The "embedded preview" looked way better than the Lightroom rendering. Even after half an hour of fiddling, I couldn't get the orange of the car to have both the saturation, the saturation dynamic range, and the metallic "3D look" that the Fuji preview had. And this is disregarding the balance of the rest of the scene (which also looked better on the Fuji). I ended up giving up and using Lightroom's Fuji color mode.

mrandish 4y ago
With the right gear and lossless raw workflow I think it's possible to achieve just about any analog look in digital (or at least close enough to pass an objective A/B/X test). That doesn't mean it's cheap or easy but it does provide maximum creative latitude in post (which is why I do it). To be clear, we've only reached the point of parity in photography and film in the last few years and only then with expensive, state of the art equipment. It's not yet possible to achieve the dynamic range of good analog with today's mobile phones or mid-range DSLRs. Just for starters you need to capture more than 14 stops of dynamic range which is still only found at the extreme high-end of digital. Even when you've digitally sampled the photons with sufficient fidelity, it requires quite a bit of skill to process it appropriately.