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We’re a tiny independent business selling Film Cameras & Accessories to Analogue Photography types in the UK, offering free tracked shipping over £50
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Not very good with the whole video shorts/reels thing, but there have been a few questions about how the Polaroid ND Filters we sell actually work. So here's a bit of an explainer youtube.com/shorts/ZX18e...
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Shooting Polaroid 600 Film in an SX-70 Camera
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November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Still riding the Polaroid ‘phase’. New on the site:

Polaroid 636 Close-up – £37
The Button Land Camera (SX-70) – £25
Polatronic 1 Flash – £15

Lots more pics and example shots using each, here: filmcameras.uk/product-tag/...

#FilmPhotohraphy #BelieveInFilm #Polaroid
A square-bodied Polaroid land camera with the words “the button“ on the front of it. It’s sitting on a wooden table. This is a product shot taken with an iPhone. A Polaroid 636 camera sitting on a wooden table. The front of the camera is open exposing the settings and the flash. This is a product shop taken with an iPhone. A flash unit with the words polatronic 1 on the front of it. The flash has the classic Polaroid rainbow as a motif in the middle. In the background is a square bodied Polaroid land camera.
November 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Have to praise LEE Filters for excellent customer service. Ordered a roll of ND film/gel – the raw material for our Polaroid ND Filters – and it turned up a bit crumpled and dusty. I emailed them at 7am yesterday, they had shipped me a new roll by 9:30am, and it turned up at home just now 👌
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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When a camera is completely beyond repair, instead of sticking it on eBay as junk and making it someone else’s problem, we like to strip it of usable bits and make them available. It’s a bit of a labour of love, but it’s great when someone finds exactly the part they need for their own repairs 😊
A small plastic bag containing the shutter speed dial from a Pentax Spotmatic SP2. There’s a small label on the bag explaining its contents. The bag is lying on a brown envelope which has the words please do not bend printed on it in red.
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Just packed up this nice little Fujicolor Reala film case with belt hook, to hold 3 rolls of 35mm film. Not seen another one. Anyone remember if they were exhibition freebies or something back in the day? #FilmPhotography
A black plastic rounded case and a film cameras UK sticker laying on some tissue paper which itself is laying on some packing material.
October 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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New T-shirt design:
Let’s all go to Franke & Heidecke’s for some Calzones, some Haloumi Fries, and a Rolleiflex!

Hand drawn design - once in pencil & once in vectors - then printed on lovely organic cotton tees with vegan inks 🌱

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography

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A chest view of the tee. This is a real t-shirt that arrived from the printers yesterday. The print says “Franke & Heidecke’s” in the deep red style of the Frankie & Benny’s restaurant logo. Under the name, the following text is in white with a green background: “Braunschweig Kamerahersteller” which should mean “Braunschweig Camera Manufacturer” in English. A close-up iPhone pic of the “Franke &” part of the logo, showing the print colours and quality.
October 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Just had a casual little product photography session for a new tee design (proper post tomorrow). Needs must when you don’t have any proper lights, a neutral backdrop or a single working DSLR/Mirrorless camera…😅 first time I’ve ironed a sheet in decades… and it shows!
A snap of my hand holding a cheap Lidl LED ring light over a T-shirt that’s lying on the floor; on a white bed sheet. My feet and stripy socks are visible too.
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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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 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Fresh stock in to produce more Polaroid ND filter sets tomorrow 😬
#BelieveInFilm #Polaroid
A snap of a triangular-shaped cardboard box with the words “Lee Filters - A Panavision Company” on it.
October 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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This Weston Master III works well and it’s very tidy for a septuagenarian. Includes solid case in very good condition, from an earlier v2 meter. Asking: £25. More: filmcameras.uk/product/west....
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A light meter laying on a wooden table. This is a product shot for a website listing.
October 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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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!)
October 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Here’s a very tidy set of Rolleinar 2 / Rolleiparkeil 2 close-up lenses for Bay 1 #Rolleiflex & #Rolleicord TLRs. Asking: £50.  More info and images: filmcameras.uk/product/roll...
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The three close-up lenses arranged on their case and placed on a table. This is a product photograph taken with an iPhone.
October 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Now £40. Small price drop on this film tested and tidy #Polaroid ONE. Go have a look. filmcameras.uk/product/pola...
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
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This 1st Gen Polaroid ONE has: Clamshell design to protect the gizzards. Flash with on/off/red-eye modes. Self-timer. Tripod mount (!!) and clever wrist/palm strap arrangement. Think of the creative options 🤔. It’s good, so we’re asking £45.
#BelieveInFilm #Polaroid
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The Polaroid ONE, in open mode, sat on a wooden table in front of a book about mushrooms. The book has a plant on it that doesn’t like this silly hot weather we’ve been having. Neither do I. Anyway the image was taken with an iPhone and had some vignette added to look a bit fancy. A pic of a Polaroid pic taken with this camera. It’s wonky but it demonstrates a shot with flash off in low light on a tripod. The image is inside my kitchen looking out the window from fairly far back. A photo of a Polaroid photo. The image shows a harvested wheat field in the evening sun with a tractor on it. Long shadows create nearly black areas. I pulled over a bit erratically on the Cirencester Rd to get this, should have indicated sooner. Sorry following Tesla.
September 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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*cough*

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JMDC Passed T-Shirt • filmcameras.uk
How we love to find these little JCII / JMDC stickers on our eBay and Goodwill wins. JCII stands for ‘Japan Camera Industry Institute’ – or maybe more precisely – ‘The Japan(Nippon) Camera and optical...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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“Passed” 👌 🙏
September 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Well.. that's a first... somebody must have asked what they needed in order to use M42 lenses with their FujiX mount body 🤷🏻‍♂️. Thanks AI. I guess. Still hate you though.
A screenshot from some e-commerce software, showing that the source of a sale was ChatGPT.
September 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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It’s a small step, but really I’m pleased to have some Film Cameras UK stock in local lab, The Darkroom UK 😊
#FilmPhotography #Polaroid
A wooden shelf in a shop with various items on it, including the Polaroid ND filters front and centre.
September 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Really must get back to fixing some “proper” cameras and put these fun Polaroids down.
On the bench needing various things:
Olympus OM1n, Trip & OM10. Pentax SuperA. Canon T70. About 25 lenses, various.
Under the bench: About 50-60 other items requiring some kind of repair.
#FilmPhotography
August 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Any human proofreaders left? I'd love to know how this reads and whether it makes sense please - Ben filmcameras.uk/how-to-use-y...
How to use your Polaroid ND Filters • filmcameras.uk
These filters are designed to fit over the film in a Polaroid 600-sized film pack. They are placed on top of the film pack’s darkslide, and stay in place once the film has been inserted and the darksl...
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August 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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This 1st Gen Polaroid ONE has: Clamshell design to protect the gizzards. Flash with on/off/red-eye modes. Self-timer. Tripod mount (!!) and clever wrist/palm strap arrangement. Think of the creative options 🤔. It’s good, so we’re asking £45.
#BelieveInFilm #Polaroid
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The Polaroid ONE, in open mode, sat on a wooden table in front of a book about mushrooms. The book has a plant on it that doesn’t like this silly hot weather we’ve been having. Neither do I. Anyway the image was taken with an iPhone and had some vignette added to look a bit fancy. A pic of a Polaroid pic taken with this camera. It’s wonky but it demonstrates a shot with flash off in low light on a tripod. The image is inside my kitchen looking out the window from fairly far back. A photo of a Polaroid photo. The image shows a harvested wheat field in the evening sun with a tractor on it. Long shadows create nearly black areas. I pulled over a bit erratically on the Cirencester Rd to get this, should have indicated sooner. Sorry following Tesla.
August 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Very pleased to find some #Polaroid 600 locally at Clifton Cameras (nowhere near Clifton now 😅). With pretty strong feelings about ‘buying local’ and not from BigCorpInc etc, I usually get it from a tiny shop in Cirencester, but they had no stock. Now to test some more cameras! 🙌
#BelieveInFilm
My hand holding a twin pack of Polaroid 600 film, against a stone wall
August 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Here’s a perfectly good, working and film-tested Polaroid P 600 (close-up + flash), selling for a bit less because it has a few marks. Asking £25. Go take a look: filmcameras.uk/product/pola...
#InstantPhoto #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography
The Polaroid camera with a front flipped up, sat on a wooden table in front of some photography books. This is intended as a product shot and taken on an iPhone. Sample photo taken with this camera. The Polaroid shows an old and fairly rusty triumph GT6 car at the bottom of the garden.
July 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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On a #Polaroid trip at the moment. Here’s a fully working and film tested 636 CloseUp for sale. Testing gives us excuses to capture shenanigans like Stan and Duggee here 😊. Asking £35.
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The camera sat on a wooden table. A product shot showing the front open and a plant in the background Two test Polaroid photos laying on a wooden table. One shows studio visitor Duggee sat posing, the other shows Duggee jumping on studio stalwart Stan, a gent of doggo.
July 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Another Polaroid ready for sale! This time a Spirit 600. It’s in really good nick despite being 40+ years old. Fully working & film tested. Asking: £35.  
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The Polaroid camera sat on a wooden table. The front is flipped up showing the lenses and light level controls as well as the classic rainbow branding. A Polaroid photo taken with the camera for sale. The image is of some lavender bushes and a small tree against a stone barn wall in the sunshine
July 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM