Adox Color Mission 200

Color Mission 200 was Adox's reverse Kickstarter. Announced in February 2022, the film went on sale immediately while the company was still building out R&D for a future in-house color emulsion. The current stock was co-developed and coated by an unnamed partner. Forum sleuths landed on InovisCoat, the Agfa spinoff. Adox has not confirmed it. The partner went bankrupt shortly after the first run, which is why Color Mission exists as a finite supply.

The film was coated years before release and kept refrigerated until distribution, which Adox notes has helped it hold its rated ISO 200 better than most films of similar age would. Grain is chunky in the way a hand-coated small-batch color negative tends to be, closer to Lomography Color 400 than to Portra 400. Color rendering has a signature: a slight minty cast in light grays, peachy reds, and saturated but slightly unbalanced greens. Reviewers consistently call out the same combination of traits.

Processing is standard C-41 at any minilab. No special chemistry, no remjet, no pre-soak. The film slots into existing workflows for the price of a more interesting negative than Kodak Gold or Fujicolor 200 would give you. Whether you prefer Color Mission depends on whether the minty cast and chunkier grain register as character or as defect. For street work it has found a real audience. For commercial portraits, Portra 400 still wins on every objective measure.

Available in 35mm only, no 120 or sheet. The format limitation is part of the small-batch reality. Adox reinvests the profits into the ongoing color R&D effort, with plans for a fully in-house Bad Saarow color emulsion at some future date.

Reciprocity exponent is 1.20. Zone Light Meter applies the correction past one second, so a 30-second meter reading lands at roughly 60 seconds at the negative. The threshold matters less for color negative than for slide, since C-41 latitude absorbs a half stop of error without complaint, but for tripod work past a few seconds the math is still worth applying.