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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
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
Two accidentally underexposed images from the National Gallery that I’m quite fond of (2/2)

📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm
🎞️: Foma 400

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography
January 23, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Two accidentally underexposed images from the National Gallery that I’m quite fond of (1/2)

📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm
🎞️: Foma 400

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography
January 23, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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
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
Looking up at The National Gallery

📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm
🎞️: Foma 400

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Stickle Brick Architecture, London.

📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
December 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Princes Wharf in the rain, Bristol.

📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
December 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
What shall I call the section people?
• Digitalschmigital
• The Basement
• Arkham
• Cameras we can’t fit film in 😅
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
I said “Can I get a picture?”
She said “Ok, as long as I’m not in it. Biscuit! Come here!”

📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
December 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Black dog

📷: Nikon RF2
🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
December 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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
December 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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!
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
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Told my kid we had a new puzzle to do together 😬
November 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Lemme just check with @profanity.accountant
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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
“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
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November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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
October 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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
October 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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)
October 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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.

📷: Pentax ME Super + Tamron SP 90mm 
🎞: Tudor 200, long expired 
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Nearly two years. Turned out pretty nice, with some careful following and the correct block lists etc…
*shuffles in quietly at the back just to see what this place is like*
October 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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?
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
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Apropos nothing and #offtopic, it’s time to post this again…
#lego #grammar
October 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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
October 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM