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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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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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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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…or at the corner.
October 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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One day we’ll bump into each other…
October 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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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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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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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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Clean ‘em rollers!
#Polaroid #FilmPhotography
A cotton pad sat on top of a Polaroid ONE600 Classic, which is itself sitting on a table. The cotton pad has dirt marks on it in a line, where it’s been used to clean the rollers on the Polaroid
August 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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I had an accident while attempting to swap a Polaroid film pack. An accident that cost £2.18p so I’m posting it!
#InstantPhotography #Polaroid
A Polaroid photo of part of my hand, taken accidentally. Everything is extremely blurred and reduces to skin tones and shade.
August 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Reflections of mountains in still lakes are nice no? Reflections of hills that look like mountains but aren’t actually mountains but we’re calling a mountain because my 7 y.o. climbed it with me and was really proud, are also pretty nice I think.
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📷: Bessa 1
🎞: Ilford HP5+ @200
#BelieveInFilm
A black and white medium format film photo of a peaked Welsh hill that’s not quite a mountain, and it’s almost identical reflection in a still lake below it. There’s also a small boat house on the lake shore.
July 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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And the action shot…
A top-down view of my TLR camera, looking at the waist level viewfinder, where the scene from the previous post can be seen. Colour iPhone snap
July 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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A local hillocky tump I’m fond of.
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📷: Rolleiflex 2.8f 
🎞: Gold 200 
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#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A colour medium format photo of a small hill with a few trees on it. In the foreground there’s a stone wall punctuated by a water trough. The sky is blue with some cloud.
July 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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James by the Teepee – The first image through the Rollei. Also first time I’ve asked someone if I could take their portrait. Colleague/mate james was happy to just sit & drink his tea while I figured out how to focus etc. I’m fairly pleased with it.
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📷: Rolleiflex 2.8f
🎞: Ilford HP5+ (HC110)
A person sat in the sun, relaxed in a wooden garden chair with his feet up, holding a cup of tea. This is a black and white film image.
July 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM