Dubblefilm Apollo 200

Apollo 200 used to be called Moonstruck. Adam Scott renamed the whole Dubblefilm lineup in early 2019 when he moved manufacturing from KONO! to the Austrian house Revolog, and Moonstruck became Apollo at the same time Monsoon turned into Pacific and Sunstroke turned into Solar. The emulsion underneath is a standard C-41 color negative base that Revolog pre-treats before re-canning, so each frame comes out with a blue-shadow yellow-highlight cast that you cannot get on any normal Kodak or Fuji stock.

The effect is not a filter you can dial in. It is baked into the film by exposure of the base to a colored light source before you ever load the cartridge, which is why two consecutive rolls of Apollo do not look identical. Bright outdoor scenes pick up a warm overall tone; contrasty scenes split harder, with deep blue shadow values and yellow rolloff in the highlights. The hue shift reads cinematic in some frames and like a broken scanner in others. That uncertainty is the appeal.

Rate at box speed in good light. In shade or overcast Apollo 200 underperforms because the warm-cool split needs sun to actually push the curve apart. Compared with Lomography Color Negative 100, which is a clean stock that holds neutral tones, Apollo is doing the opposite job. Treat it as a special-effects roll, not a general-purpose film. Pair it with a sharp lens because the color noise will eat fine detail anyway.

C-41 process at any lab. Ask the lab to scan flat if you can; default color correction tries to neutralize the cast and removes most of what you paid for.

Available in 35mm and 120, both in single rolls and in mixed-flavor family packs from Dubblefilm's Barcelona shop.

Reciprocity exponent is 1.20. Zone Light Meter applies the correction past one second. A metered 30-second exposure becomes about 50 seconds at the negative. For an experimental film you are unlikely to expose long unless you are shooting urban nocturnes for the bloom, but in that case the correction matters more than it would on a clean stock.