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Paula Smith
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London based freelance photographer working to capture life’s moments. Still crazy for #filmphotography and vintage cameras.

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🤷🏻 I’m not very good at reading the negs esp colour. I’m not sure what’s suppose to be ‘correct’. May also be my scanning I suppose. Here they are on light panel. Whatcha reckon?
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Here's another showing 'chunks'. I can see the particles in the emulsion. I'm now racking my brains on whether this could have happened after it was hung in the bathroom. Oh well... thankfully I can sort in Lightroom. Do you rinse with water before the stab? I've been going fix then stab x 3.
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Here's what I got from the last roll I just did. At first I'm thinking no problem I'll just wipe it off. Closer look its embedded in the emulsion side... My guess, its the pre bath that has messed with C41 (Even though I always rinse well) Or somewhere else along the way... 🤷

#believeinfilm
A scan of a 35mm frame showing marks and blotches. Most likely contamination of remjet. A scan of a 35mm frame showing marks and blotches. Most likely contamination of remjet.
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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From the steps. There be so many stories here...

📷 Holga 120n
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200
⚗️ Home developed with Bellini C41.

#believeinfilm #holga #mediumformat
Steps down to the River Thames. The tide is low and access is possible. From the banks of the River Thames at low tide. These wooden embankment panels are wearing away. Several of them are detached and will soon be floating off into the river.
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Happy Friday everyone.

📷 Leica MP & 35mm Summicron
🎞️ Kodak Vision 250d
⚗️ Home developed in Bellini C41

#believeinfilm
A man stands looking out of an office block window.
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I've been revisiting a documentary film portrait project I did with Guy King back in 2014. The film is being re-screened as part of an event 'Made in Walthamstow' at the Trades Hall, E17 this Sunday.

#walthamstow #portraits #londonportraits #e17 #e17films #humansofbluesky
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Here's one I took half way up with my little compact digital...
View from half way up the steps onto Waterloo Bridge. A young man looking at his phone walks down the steps towards me. Down below cars pass on the road and a traffic speed camera watches on.
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Had a few 120 frames to use up. The rain had stopped and I needed some air. So glad I did the forest is peaking nicely…

#eppingforest
A path runs through trees. A walking trail post marker surrounded by yellow leaves from the nearby beech and oak trees. Tree trunk surrounded by yellow beech leaves.
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Missing

📷 Leica MP & Summicron f2
🎞️ Kodak Vision 250d home developed Bellini C41

#believeinfilm #urbangaze
A street lamp post with a torn missing poster, so you can't see who is missing.
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Stairs - from a wander around central London.

📷 Leica MP & 35mm Summicron f2
🎞️ Dubblefilm Black and white 400
⚗️ llfotec HC 1+31

#believeinfilm
Black and white image looking down stairs from one street level to another. Black and white image looking up a set of stairs leading to a bridge.
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Out and about taking random photos on the streets of London. Mostly practicing zone focusing and learning to trust it.

📷 Leica MP & 35mm Summicron f2
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ 400 EI 800
⚗️ llfotec HC 1+31

#believeinfilm
Black and white image of a couple kissing looking toward a city street. Black and white image of a woman carrying a large teddy bear in her arms.
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Out and about taking random photos on the street. Mostly practicing zone focusing and learning to trust it.

📷 Leica MP & 35mm Summicron f2
🎞️ Dubblefilm Black and white 400
⚗️ llfotec HC 1+31

#believeinfilm
black and white image of a man smoking. Black and white image of people walking in front of a shop on Regents Street. A man carries step ladder on his shoulder. In the background a shopwindow poster of a woman wearing a cowboy hat. Black and white image of the back of two woman walking down the street with their arms around each other. Black and white image of a brick wall with advertisement for a restaurant BlackLock. 'Chop Love' A man leans against the wall with a cigarette in his hand as he looks at his phone.
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Holga light leaks... How I can go from a perfect first frame to next three being ruined I'll never know. 🤷 Time to refresh my gaffer tape.

#believeinfilm #holga #kodakgold200
A contact sheet of images from a 120 roll of Kodak Gold 200 taken with a Holga 120n.
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Attitude... 😆 From the neighbourhood for #folderweek out of the Zeiss Ikonta. Seems to fit with today's events.

Kentmere 400 developed Ilfotec HC 1+31.

#believeinfilm
A cat sits next to a parked mini car. Close up crop of a cat with attitude sitting next to a parked car.
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Posts. From the neighbourhood for #folderweek out of the Zeiss Ikonta. Seems to fit with today's events.

Kentmere 400 developed Ilfotec HC 1+31.

#believeinfilm
Sign saying 'Siow 3 Speed Ramps Ahead. Private Road Residents Parking Only'. Surrounded by trees and vegetation. Sign on a telephone pole saying No Parking for Open Day Private Road. Thx! A posted sign saying no horse riding. its at an angle surrounded by trees and vegetation.
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Oh no. All does not look well with my roll out of the Holga. It’s not on every frame. But looks like shutter issue maybe. 😲 #believeinfilm
Colour 120 film negative hangs to dry.
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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From the neighbourhood for #folderweek out of the Zeiss Ikonta. Seems to fit with today's events.

Kentmere 400 developed Ilfotec HC 1+31.

#believeinfilm
A puffer jacket hangs on a way marker post. Presumably someone dropped it. A bench overlooking a field with an A road with three cars passing.
November 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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A couple from #folderweek out of the Zeiss Ikonta. Seems to fit with today's events.

Kentmere 400 developed Ilfotec HC 1+31.

#believeinfilm
Black and white image of headstones in a churchyard. Black and white image of headstones in a churchyard.
October 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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I lost yet another Leica flash socket cover so took it as a sign… never used one on this camera before. Vivitar and a Leica 😲🤣.

#believeinfilm
Hand holding a Leica MP with a Vivitar compact flash connected to the shoemount.
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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The frustration of the Zeiss Ikonta and it’s technical ‘advancement’ to avoid double exposures. If you inadvertently click shutter in your pocket you have to advance and lose the frame… twice people, twice 🤬😖 #folderweek #believeinfilm
A strip of 120 film negative hanging. Show two unused blank frames.
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A double exposure from the lunchtime happenings on Wood St, E17. Walk with the Agfa Isolette for #folderweek

Kodak Tri-X 400 and home developed in Ilfotec HC 1+31.

#believeinfilm

A benefit (or not) of the Isolette is the ability to take multiply exposures until my Ikonta which prevents that.
A double exposure image of a junction with railway bridge, pedestrian crossing and bike parking. Two ghostly looking figures are walking across the pedestrian crossing.
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Lunchtime happenings on Wood St, E17. Walk with the Agfa Isolette for #folderweek

Kodak Tri-X 400 and home developed in Ilfotec HC 1+31.

#believeinfilm
A street planter with business logo etched into the metal work. Clapton Craft with a picture of a bear head, is a micro brewery. A tire business yard. Tires are stacked up on shelving against an exterior brick wall.
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Lunchtime happenings on Wood St, E17. Walk with the Agfa Isolette for #folderweek

Kodak Tri-X 400 and home developed in Ilfotec HC 1+31.

#believeinfilm
Street sign for Vallentin Road E17. Above on the wall is mural word 'BUSINESSES' and below is the top of a bicycle stand. Street view of a junction with a building with a mural painted saying "We are Wood Street". Below is a tower block.
October 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Lunchtime happenings on Wood St, E17. Walk with the Agfa Isolette for #folderweek

Kodak Tri-X 400 and home developed in Ilfotec HC 1+31.

#believeinfilm
Black and white image of a man pushing a small shopping trolley filled with white sacks along a pavement under a railway bridge. There is a lamp post that is lit and a grotty brick wall covered in moss and drip stains. Two skips, a transit van and a portaloo outside a building with a mural featuring people pulling on a robe. Look closely and there are 3 men, one off to the right on his phone. One bent down doing something at the base of the portaloo and one on the building roof pulling a long ladder upwards.
October 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I had a good lunchtime outing with the Agfa Isolette and roll of Kodak Tri-x. No beautiful landscapes here just some local interest that caught me eye #folderweek #believeinfilm
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM