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Ben Hutchings
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Analogue only. #BelieveInFilm. Bothering Pentaxes and experimenting with charity shop finds. ベン。
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Cameras and Tees: @filmcameras.uk
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Told my kid we had a new puzzle to do together 😬
An old Apple Bluetooth keyboard with all the keys removed, sitting on a wooden table. The keys are strewn in front of the keyboard bed.
November 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Lemme just check with @profanity.accountant …
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Hivemind… I’m investigating the Olympus OM10’s optional Manual Adapter, and I’ve just read on a retailer’s site that the small socket (2.5mm jack) that the adapter uses, doubles as a Flash PC Sync socket. I can’t find this info anywhere else. I think they are wrong?
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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#offtopic
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November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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New book at bedtime. A bit big, and it’ll probably really hurt when I fall asleep and drop it on my face…
#BelieveInFilm #Bookatbedtime
A book entitled ‘Collecting and Using Classic Cameras’, laying on a wooden table. The book has four cameras on the cover, two folders, a Rollei and an early Leica type.
October 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Well… I completely missed #folderweek and it’s now Sunday afternoon and gloomy and I’m out of playtime, but at least I found this in the shed for next time 😅
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A Retina 2a 35mm film camera with folding (bellows) lens. Held by my hand, for a quick snap to post here.
October 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Here’s my latest sketch, as a tee 😅
(Actual tee photo, mocked up over a pic of my Rollei, in Potatoshop, because ‘marketing’).

If you want one they are £22 delivered. Or about £2M to another county probably because tariffs.
(Here: filmcameras.uk/product/fran... #FilmPhotography #Rolleiflex)
An Indian ink blue tee with a mock logo on it saying Franke & Heidecke’s. The pic has been placed over a closeup pic of a Rolleiflex TLR. It’s a product shot.
October 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Archive: Blue Tree Monitor – We visited Bristol Zoo a couple weeks before it closed. This decades-old poorly stored TudorColor held up well. The skin textures and colour perfectly complement its perch.
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📷: Pentax ME Super + Tamron SP 90mm 
🎞: Tudor 200, long expired 
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A turquoise Blue Monitor Lizard Perched on a log shot through glass at the zoo. Only the head and some bark below it are in focus. The expired film gives a lovely colour cast that’s warm. The scales and bark texture are in harmony. Shot on colour 35mm film.
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Nearly two years. Turned out pretty nice, with some careful following and the correct block lists etc…
pixelated135.bsky.social Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · Nov 5
*shuffles in quietly at the back just to see what this place is like*
October 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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I’m selling my own #Polaroid Land Camera 1000 on @filmcameras.uk. Seen lots of these over the years. This one is in better that usual nick with matching flash, so I’m asking £65. I started the site to sell #FilmPhotography gear at reasonable prices, so I’m wondering if £65 is a bit steep 🤔 opinions?
filmcameras.uk Film Cameras UK @filmcameras.uk · Oct 17
New on the site: A very tidy Polaroid 1000 Land Camera + Polatronic 1 flash + some ND Filters thrown in so 600 film can be used. This is from my own collection 😔 but I’m having a much needed cull. More pics and example shots here: filmcameras.uk/product/pola...

#Polaroid #FilmPhotography
A Polaroid camera with flash on it, sitting on a wooden table. This is a product shot.
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Apropos nothing and #offtopic, it’s time to post this again…
#lego #grammar
A diagram that says A Guide to LEGO Grammar. At the top it shows one LEGO sheep with the caption “One LEGO sheep”. At the bottom five sheep are shown with the caption “Five sheep built with LEGO”. To a British English speaker the point being made is pretty clear.
October 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Sea defences, like a fun roller coaster for the most ambitious waves 🌊.
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📷: Rolleiflex 2.8f 
🎞: Gold 200 
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#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
Sea defences? No but I do see de curvy wall! Um… this is a Medium Format film photograph of a curved sea wall above some large rocks designed to break waves, at Torcross in Devon. It’s a misty and overcast day. Two figures are skimming stones in the distance
October 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Right… you’re all great and everything

…but I think I have capacity for some more nice photography and camera nerdery.

Any personal recommendations? Who’s posting interesting analogue stuff, whilst managing to lay off the politics, doom or football 😅 (purposely not hashtagging this)
October 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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A small section of Overbeck’s Garden that I really liked. The vivid colours from afternoon sun bouncing around this wood-framed greenhouse and all the plants in it made the place very welcoming.
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📷: Rolleiflex 2.8f 
🎞: Gold 200 
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#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A metal stepped and slatted shelf with three levels, each supporting several succulents in terracotta pots. The colours suggest bright afternoon sun. This is a colour medium format film photo
October 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Without using a search engine or other reference system, do you know why the names 'Franke & Heidecke' are significant?

For want of a polling system here, perhaps you could 'like' or reply with a thumbs-up if you do.

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
(this is rudimentary market research init!)
October 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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It's kind of ruining us isn't it...
October 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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A few people from the Vintage Prescott (VSCC) event in August. I really want to photograph more people, just need to be braver. #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography
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📷: Rolleiflex 2.8f 
🎞: Gold 200
Two older guys peer into the engine bay of a vintage race car, whilst one of them makes adjustments to a carburettor. The image is square format on medium format colour film. A guy leans against the rear wheel of his vintage race car eating some sandwiches between timed runs. This is a square colour film photograph taken on a medium format camera.
October 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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When I got this Rolleiflex I was also given a bag of “bits that might be to do with it”. I immediately lost this bag until yesterday! Quite excited to find – after lots of reading & learning about Rollei accessories – close-up (Rolleinar 1) adapters & a hood in it.
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography
A twin lens reflex camera in a partial leather case sitting on a grey surface in front of a grey wall. The camera has additional attachments on both lenses.
September 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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This hill is a bit crickley, but I love it.
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📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D
🎞: Pro Image 100 
🧪: The Darkroom UK
💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8  
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#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A bucolic scene of a hill side, with various trees and shrubs and grasslands leading into a valley, basin and more distant hills. In the foreground a stone wall disappears off to the right. This is a colour film photo.
September 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Archive, March 2021: Because the Seaweed – from my first try Stand Developing, before this Mju died from the dreaded ‘E’. I was very pleased with this one if I recall.  
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📷: Olympus Mju2  
🎞: Kentmere 400 @ box
A girl running across a beach holding some seaweed. A black and white film photo.
September 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Ducati details at Prescott Hill Climb.
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📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D
🎞: Pro Image 100
🧪: The Darkroom UK
💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8  
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#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A closeup image of a polished aluminium crank case on a classic Ducati. A colour film photo.
September 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Well this is pleasing 😊.
Somewhere to store batteries for my AA-hungry Nikon F5 when it’s not in use. PET-G filament, not my model.

www.printables.com/model/173788...
A mid-grey plastic 3D printed battery box designed to hold AA batteries, being held in my left hand, next to a window with some plants on the sill.
September 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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A Fecund Fistle.
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📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D
🎞: Pro Image 100 
🧪: The Darkroom UK
💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8  
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#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A light pink thistle flower in focus while the background and surround thistle thorns are blurred. Then image is a photograph taken on colour film.
September 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Target practice.
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📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D
🎞: Pro Image 100 
💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8
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#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A close-up image of a poly brush-type target used for axe throwing. The target circles are yellow, red, white and blue from inside to out.
September 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Ok I get that everyone is very excited about AI. Now please leave me alone to play with my old bicycles, old cameras, old cars and old electronic devices #offtopic #rant
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August 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM