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Ben Hutchings

@pixelated135.bsky.social
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Analogue only. #BelieveInFilm. Bothering Pentaxes and experimenting with charity shop finds. ベン。 —   Cameras and Tees: @filmcameras.uk

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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
From a quick stroll to the park to test this Land Camera ‘The Button’. No SX-70 to hand so this was taken using some of my @filmcameras.uk Polaroid ND filters and 600 film. —  📷: Polaroid ‘The Button’ Land Camera 🎞: Polaroid 600 + 2 stop ND gel    —   #instantfilm #polaroid
A scanned Polaroid image of a basketball backboard at one end of an outdoor court. Behind the board there’s blue sky dotted with vapour trails
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Neon rain on Bath Road. Handheld at about 1/8th, braced against a dead end signpost. —  📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D 🎞: Pro Image 100  🧪: The Darkroom UK 💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8   —   #filmphotography #believeinfilm
A green neon sign inside the window of a coffee shop illuminates the condensation and rain covering the glass in a bloom of light. The sign reads “Corner Coffee Co.”. Visible to the right of the corner window is a deep purple sky of late twilight. This is a colour film photo.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Some no-nonsense t-shirt design from Martin @photowalkme.bsky.social, at TPS ‘26. —  📷: Canon Z115 Caption 🎞: Ilford FP4  💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8   —   #filmphotography #believeinfilm
A black and white film photograph of the someone’s back. The person it sat down, and the words “Follow the leader” are printed across the back of their t-shirt.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Get ready to be treated to another round of: “oh so that’s what was on that film!”. A resting Blue Morpho. —  📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D 🎞: Pro Image 100  🧪: The Darkroom UK 💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8   —   #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
A Blue Morpho butterfly landed on a vertical stem of a large shrub, with brown and patterned underside showing. Shot DoF has only the wing in focus. This is a colour film photograph
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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...
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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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Two accidentally underexposed images from the National Gallery that I’m quite fond of (2/2) — 📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm 🎞️: Foma 400 — #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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Two accidentally underexposed images from the National Gallery that I’m quite fond of (1/2) — 📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm 🎞️: Foma 400 — #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)
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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!
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Looking up at The National Gallery — 📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm 🎞️: Foma 400 — #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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Stickle Brick Architecture, London. — 📷: 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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Princes Wharf in the rain, Bristol. — 📷: 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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
What shall I call the section people? • Digitalschmigital • The Basement • Arkham • Cameras we can’t fit film in 😅
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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
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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Black dog — 📷: 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
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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!
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Lemme just check with @profanity.accountant …
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
“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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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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
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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Nearly two years. Turned out pretty nice, with some careful following and the correct block lists etc…
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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?
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Sea defences, like a fun roller coaster for the most ambitious waves 🌊. —  📷: Rolleiflex 2.8f  🎞: Gold 200  —   #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 · 08/10/2025
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 · 08/10/2025
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. —  📷: Rolleiflex 2.8f  🎞: Gold 200  —   #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 · 07/10/2025
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 · 07/10/2025
It's kind of ruining us isn't it...
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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 —  📷: 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 · 26/09/2025
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 · 16/09/2025
This hill is a bit crickley, but I love it. —  📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D 🎞: Pro Image 100  🧪: The Darkroom UK 💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8   —   #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 · 13/09/2025
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.   —   📷: 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 · 12/09/2025
Ducati details at Prescott Hill Climb. —  📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D 🎞: Pro Image 100 🧪: The Darkroom UK 💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8   —   #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 · 11/09/2025
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 · 09/09/2025
A Fecund Fistle. —  📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D 🎞: Pro Image 100  🧪: The Darkroom UK 💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8   —   #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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Target practice. —  📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D 🎞: Pro Image 100  💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8 —   #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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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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a cartoon character is holding a newspaper that says " old man yells at ais "
ALT: a cartoon character is holding a newspaper that says " old man yells at ais "
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Oh go on… my recent Polaroid trip has left @filmcameras.uk with some new stock 😬
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Realised I don’t have a half-frame camera… 😑 I wonder if I could modify something with a mask and some thinking 🤔 Gearing would be a git right? #FilmPhotography #HFF @halfframephotoday.bsky.social
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A little shameless business promotion. I have a few Polaroid 600 cameras for sale here. All good, all tested, all reasonably priced (I hope, feedback welcome) 😅 #Polaroid #FilmPhotography
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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. — 📷: 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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A local hillocky tump I’m fond of. —  📷: Rolleiflex 2.8f  🎞: Gold 200  —   #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.
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Ben Hutchings @pixelated135.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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. — 📷: 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.
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