Yodica Vega 400

Vega is the sunset entry in the Yodica catalog. Cool blue at the top of the frame, gradient down through purple, warm orange across the bottom. If you wanted every photograph to look like it was shot at golden hour whether it actually was or not, this is the film for the trick. The base is Kodak Gold or ColorPlus 200, pre-exposed in Milan by Marco Barbereschi and Cinzia Cancedda since 2018, then loaded into 36-exposure 35mm cartridges and shipped without DX coding.

The look matters most in horizontal compositions where sky receives the blue and earth receives the orange. Beach shots come back looking like postcards. Cityscapes get a faked sunset that can lift a dull afternoon or contradict the light in a way that reads obviously artificial. Decide which side of that line before committing a roll. The effect is loudest on flat overcast days when the sky has no competing color of its own.

Rated at ISO 400, though the underlying Gold emulsion is a 200 stock that loses about a stop to the pre-exposure. Underexposing by half a stop tightens the orange and intensifies the blue. Overexposing washes the gradient out and leaves a slightly tinted Kodak Gold scan, which is sometimes what you want.

C-41 lab processing, nothing special. Auto-color will try to neutralize the cast, so a flat scan with a manual grade is the way to keep the look. Among the Yodica lineup, Vega is closest in feel to Antares but with the warm tone migrated to the bottom of the frame instead of the top, which inverts the visual logic of a horizon. Compared with Lomochrome Purple, the Vega effect is gentler and more figurative.

Available in 35mm 36 exposure only. No 120, no sheet, no bulk roll.

Reciprocity exponent is 1.20. Zone Light Meter applies the correction past one second. A metered five-second exposure becomes about seven and a half seconds; a 30-second reading lands near 60. For long sunset and blue-hour work where the light is already shifting warm, the pre-exposure adds a layer the math cannot predict. Bracket more than the meter says.