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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 2d

Yep I realised I was following you from @filmcameras.uk but not my personal account, so remedied that. JCH… think I am, but I’ll check 👍

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 2d

Thought I was already following you, but it’s on my other @filmcameras.uk account. Thanks, done.

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 3d

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)

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 3d

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

media.tenor.com

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Film Cameras UK @filmcameras.uk · 4d

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!)

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 4d

It's kind of ruining us isn't it...

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 4d

I still love wearing mine, but being in the UK folks over about 50 do sometimes actually recognise them. My old mate Kev wears his because he was - apparently - arrested in one in Manchester in the 80s 😂

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 4d

Worth it

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 15d

Out of interest, is the Rolleicord Bay 1 or 2?

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 16d

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.

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 16d

Soo… we shouldn’t send you to eBay listings right?

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 16d

Less grumpy in the morning, or through the whole day? Asking for a friend (wife).

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 25d

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.

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 27d

Always meant to try this, never have. The results are great! Much tonal post pro needed? For some reason I assume XP2 in B&W process will turn out sepia. Not sure why I think this.

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 27d

Ah, yes, currently 😅

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 27d

We started using the log burner on Friday night, it’s a nice time of year. Not _quite_ ready for beanies yet though.

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 28d

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.

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 29d

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.

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 29d

Actual SX-70. Wow.

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · Sep 11

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.

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · Sep 10

Great, thanks. Yes having that value makes it far easier to understand the scale for me. They make excellent images 👌

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · Sep 10

Does HFW value mean that this image represents is 3.5 mm wide?

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