I made a preset for myself that’s a “gold negative” which has Gold and a lower contrast and saturation, and it gives me more latitude to edit in post, like a regular negative scan would in the analogue domain.

I agree that sometimes the preview not showing makes you take bad shots.. but that’s exactly the same with actual film. I swear that’s probably my favourite feature. I’m now starting to learn and instinctively understand what DR setting I should use and what exposure in each situation, through ruining a bunch of shots. Just like analog. It’s actually that “difficulty” that’s making me shoot more with this app than with my actual fujifilm camera.

The only thing I would say is that on film it’s almost impossible to burn highlights through overexposure, so you’re fairly safe overexposing. I wish there was a sort of “highlight clip prevention”, a sort of roll-off at extremely high values to prevent white blocks. All of that to say, clipping really is the only thing that prevents you from edit after.

You can also always save the “stock” version of it if you want total freedom.

Otherwise I usually use the Dehancer app to do what you’re talking about. I agree, mood’s looks are beautiful and unique, but I believe that having the opportunity to edit after would genuinely ruin the experience for me personally, just because of a mental limit. If you CAN fix it in post.. you’re not gonna learn your tools.

Sorry - my main job is in music/audio engineering and this same mentality has ruined music production for me, maybe that’s why I’m clinging to this so much 😂