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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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Very very late to the Parrty on this, but if you’ve been under the same rock I have, this is well worth a watch:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
I Am Martin Parr
Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip with a photographer whose work has revolutionised contemporary photography.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Two accidentally underexposed images from the National Gallery that I’m quite fond of (2/2)
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📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm
🎞️: Foma 400
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#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography
A black and white film photograph of a person doing a detailed pencil drawing of a woman in a painting that’s hung on a wall at the national gallery. The image was accidentally underexposed by 2 stops (the whole roll was). Only the artist’s head and drawing pad, and part of the painting are lit enough to see details.
January 23, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Two accidentally underexposed images from the National Gallery that I’m quite fond of (1/2)
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📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm
🎞️: Foma 400
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#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography
A black and white film photograph of a person studying a small painting on a wall of similarly sized paintings at the national gallery. The image was accidentally underexposed by 2 stops (the whole roll was)
January 23, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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Very sleepily made a handful of borderline disrespectful offers on eBay Polaroid listings late last night. Woke to find 3 accepted 😅 I feel a bit bad now!
January 6, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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Does anyone have a good tried and tested OM Mount rear lens cap model? The couple I’ve tied from Printables and Thingiverse are very loose and scaling isn’t turning out to be a great fix. Before I model one, I thought I’d ask… #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #3DPrinting
January 4, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Looking up at The National Gallery
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📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm
🎞️: Foma 400
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#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography
A black and white film photo taken inside the National Gallery in London, facing into one of the gallery connecting rooms with it’s beautiful arched and vaulted ceiling. Visitors are milling about between galleries in the foreground.
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Stickle Brick Architecture, London.
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📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A black and white film photo of several skyscrapers in London, that show external frameworks that make them resemble children’s play blocks. The buildings are clustered from the foreground fading back in tone, height and distance.
December 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Princes Wharf in the rain, Bristol.
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📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
Bristol’s Princes Wharf in black and white, in the rain. One of the large dock cranes looms over rails and the M-Shed buildings, as well as a few pedestrians.
December 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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What shall I call the section people?
• Digitalschmigital
• The Basement
• Arkham
• Cameras we can’t fit film in 😅
filmcameras.uk Film Cameras UK @filmcameras.uk · Dec 27
We have a bunch of perfectly good old Digital cameras and accessories - often arriving along with film camera purchases - that should get sold. Having next to no interest in digital, we don’t really want them on the site… but *IF* a section was added to flog them, what should it be called?
December 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I said “Can I get a picture?”
She said “Ok, as long as I’m not in it. Biscuit! Come here!”
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📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A white dog holding a ball in its mouth stood on a park bench next to its owner, whose arm is in view. It was late winter afternoon and the flash has picked out just the foreground scene. This is a black and white image on film.
December 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Black dog
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📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A large black dog sits next to its owner as the owner tires to shield them both with a wire umbrella. The pair sit in front of some shutters on a building. This is a black and white film photograph
December 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I said in a #photochat that I mark all films & detail them in a notebook. I should also say that sometimes I bulkload forgotten film stocks into blank cassettes, shoot them in random cameras and then find them months later at the backs of shelves 😅
#isitpictures? 1h Stand Dev time! #FilmPhotography
My hand holding a black unmarked reusable 35mm film cassette, in front of some developing chemicals.
December 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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For anyone not following my little camera store (shocked… frankly), I’m clearing out some stock NOW in the hope of avoiding post offices for the last two weeks of December 😅 - if you’re after a #Polaroid #FilmCamera, do have a look. Probably not be as cheap as eBay, but they definitely work!
filmcameras.uk Film Cameras UK @filmcameras.uk · Dec 9
Morning all. Woke up and decided to have a ‘sale’ on Polaroid Cameras. All working, clean, tested. Have a little look if you want: filmcameras.uk/product-cate...
#BelieveInFilm #Polaroid #FilmPhotography
A screen shot of a website shopping page showing 4 Polaroid cameras for sale.
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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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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“Mother Nature is still the ultimate DDoS attack” and other great lines in this weeks ByteSize. If anyone else likes a bit of amusing tech news, i can recommend this newsletter. Sign up like it’s 2009 here: e-e.beehiiv.com/subscribe?re...
#offtopic
ByteSize
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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