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Gentleman Shutterbug
@gentshutterbug.bsky.social
Mostly analogue / chemical photography. Returned to film in 2020. Cameras used are Konica, Argus, Lomo, and FED for the most part. There will probably be very little "great" photography here, as I enjoy stumbling along the learning curve.
It's been far too long since my last time there, but I managed to make a visit, a kind of pilgrimage, to Chicago's Central Camera recently.

#centralcamera #chicago #photography
October 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The first movie I was taken to, a forgotten Disney flick from 1972, versus what I went to in 1976 when I had a choice -- AT THE EARTH'S CORE!
July 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A story about trendy old people hobbies that does NOT include film photography. Shocking! 🤣
July 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
July 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
After seeing the nice results @keithdevereux.bsky.social got from his Chaika II half frame camera, I thought I would get mine back out, and let my dog check it out. Maybe it will work better after he's had his fastidious little paw-paws on it.
June 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I'm looking forward to your results with the Chaika II. Mine, with a 200 ISO Arista Edu roll, lacked crispness / definition. I'm hoping that I can learn from your experiences.
June 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
My new knee is a little over six weeks old, & yesterday I gave it a workout. I met with a bird photography class at a local nature preserve & walked the trail for close to two hours. I took my Spotmatic loaded with Fuji 400 & a 205mm zoom. For now, here's a phone snap of the trail.
#believeinfilm
June 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I takes pitchers and I also makes drawrings. Example here.
#oilpastel
#jeanrogers
#sketchbook
May 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I'm looking forward to being stable enough on my feet to go outside and take a bit of a photo walk. Perhaps another week or so.
#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#pentaxspotmatic
#helios44-2
@notso-wild-bill.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
At the stadium, but just for the concessions. 🤣 April 2, 2025.
📷 Pentax Spotmatic
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200
#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
@notso-wild-bill.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
.oC ecnarusnI efiL nlocniL, April 2, 2025.
📷 Pentax Spotmatic
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200
#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
@notso-wild-bill.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Mister Coney's humongous fork. April 2025.
📷 Pentax Spotmatic / F3.5/135mm
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200
#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
@notso-wild-bill.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Also, the lady fingers, fuzz buttles, snicker bombs, church burners, finger blasters, gut busters, zippity do das, crap flappers, the whistlin' bungholes, spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers & whistlin' kitty chasers ...
May 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION ...
May 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I've had my Smena 8m for about four years now. It's such a simple, lightweight little creature -- so easy to carry, yet still so much more sophisticated than something like a basic Holga.
May 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Brickwork & bike racks. August 2020.
📷 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye.
#filmphotography #believeinfilm
April 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
April 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
An old gasoline pump. November 2020.
📷 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye.
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #kodakbrowniehawkeye
April 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The 1920s Wayne Bun candy bar company. The sign was already almost gone at the time the photo was taken. February 2020. From my first self developed roll.
📷 Holga 120N
🎞️ Holga (Fomapan) 400
🧪 Caffenol
#filmphotography #believeinfilm ##holga #caffenol #factory #candy
April 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A "mom n' pop" grocery in what was a 1920s Kroger storefront. November 2020.
📷 Kodak Hawkeye Brownie
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #kodakbrowniehawkeye #grocery #storefront
April 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In the ortho hospital with a new titanium knee. I'll be on a walker for a while, but it's working well.
April 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Yes. The strong verticals, the details on the strong horizontals, the nice open spaces of the image, etc. Perhaps I'm also thinking of the pen and ink drawings Franklin Booth did in the 1920s. That sort of thing.
April 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Knee replacement on the left knee today. Looking forward to some summer photo walks.
April 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Tre, with light leaks. April 2020.
📷 FED 5B
🎞️ Kodak ColorPlus 200
🧪 Cinestill CS41
April 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM