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!

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

Looking up at The National Gallery — 📷: Pentax MX + SMC 40mm 🎞️: Foma 400 — #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography

Stickle Brick Architecture, London. — 📷: Nikon RF2 🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

Princes Wharf in the rain, Bristol. — 📷: Nikon RF2 🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

What shall I call the section people? • Digitalschmigital • The Basement • Arkham • Cameras we can’t fit film in 😅

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

Black dog — 📷: Nikon RF2 🎞️: Foma 400 @ 100 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

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

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!

Told my kid we had a new puzzle to do together 😬

Lemme just check with @profanity.accountant …

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

“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

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

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

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)

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

Nearly two years. Turned out pretty nice, with some careful following and the correct block lists etc…

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?

Apropos nothing and #offtopic, it’s time to post this again… #lego #grammar

Sea defences, like a fun roller coaster for the most ambitious waves 🌊. —  📷: Rolleiflex 2.8f  🎞: Gold 200  —   #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

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)

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

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!)

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

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

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

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

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

Ducati details at Prescott Hill Climb. —  📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D 🎞: Pro Image 100 🧪: The Darkroom UK 💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8   —   #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

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 Fecund Fistle. —  📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D 🎞: Pro Image 100  🧪: The Darkroom UK 💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8   —   #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

Target practice. —  📷: Nikon F5 +  24-120 AF-D 🎞: Pro Image 100  💡: Plustek 8200i + Silverfast 8 —   #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

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

Oh go on… my recent Polaroid trip has left @filmcameras.uk with some new stock 😬

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

Clean ‘em rollers! #Polaroid #FilmPhotography

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 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

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 local hillocky tump I’m fond of. —  📷: Rolleiflex 2.8f  🎞: Gold 200  —   #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

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)

My favourite from an early morning solo stroll in north wales some time ago. It’s also the first thing – I believe – that I’ve scanned and posted that was taken with my Bessa 1, and first foray into 6x9. —  📷: Voigtländer Bessa 1 (no mask)  🎞: Ilford HP5+ @200  —   #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

“Magnoliawl” if you’re properly from Bristol. — Rolleiflex 2.8f Kodak Gold 200 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

A bit of wall, a bit of root, a bit of sky and a blt of excitement to be posting my first medium format scan, after a friend leant me a scanner with 120 mask and backlight. Now to scan the rest of this roll, and 6 or 7 more. —  📷: Rolleiflex 2.8f  🎞: Gold 200  —   #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

Here’s the one I printed the replacement part for, now for sale 😊 #FilmCamera #InstantPhotography

This Polaroid Spirit 600 Land Camera had a loose and damaged strap retaining cover on the rear. It’s a nicely geometric shape so it was fairly easy to design (OpenSCAD) and print (Sovol SV06+) a replacement in PETG. Looks ok I reckon! #InstantPhotography #FilmPhotography #3DPrinting

Inspired (again) by ep4 of the @photowalkme.bsky.social podcast to make a zine. I think I’ll call it Worth Doing Badly (thanks @getymk.com. Perhaps @givemeabiscuit.bsky.social and I need to team up for a ‘perfectionists with impostor syndrome’ volume 😬 #worthdoingbadly

If my name was Sean, I’d probably use the handle/username/tag ‘Sean Better Days’. #offtopic