Chad Hill

@chadhill

Archaeologist, photographer, dilettante. Primarily posting nerdy analogue photography BS: 110-8x10. Photography = catharsis. Co-Winner, 2022 #ShittyCameraChallenge - InstantRegret (Avatar is the dad from the awesome kids book “Pokko and the Drum”)

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Chad Hill@chadhill· 24d

The (former?) Trocadero, Philadelphia 2026 Leica SL2, Chroma Double Glass, Trichrome #TrichromeEverything

A painted doorway that says “T.he R.oar O.f C.hinatown” in false color.

A painted doorway with a tiger with lasers coming out of its eyes.

Closeup of the mural showing replicas of historic playbills including the 1987 Philadelphia premiere of Guns N’ Roses.

Chad Hill@chadhill· 24d

Watching the 3rd place match and keep seeing this insurance ad that is showing fancy things that might get stolen from your house. And it shows what appears to be an Olympus pen F MFT but calls it a DSLR camera. 😅🥶

Screenshot from a Progressive Insurance ad showing what appears to be a pen f mft digital camera with an Olympus 45 1.8.

Chad Hill@chadhill· 25d

Pentax 17. My vote goes for a modern production camera that has quirks but rocks. Used to take the most absurd trichrome I’ve yet managed. 360 degree from 18 images using the custom 3d printed pano head. Waiting for baggage at PHL.

A false color 360 panorama of a luggage reclaim scene.

Chad Hill@chadhill· 25d

Changes have been made, Philadelphia 2026 Leica SL2, Canon 50 1.2 ltm #Mustachioed

A mirror selfie of a man with a mustache.

Chad Hill@chadhill· 25d

Comes with 5x pieces of RC paper, a brief exposure guide, and instructions (optimistically) for caffenol. I love the way this has been built, packaged, and marketed, but I do wonder what percentage of buyers (without a darkroom,or at least some supplies, are able to produce photos.

Chad Hill@chadhill· 25d

Whoah. Dark horse entrant for the #ShittyCameraChallenge. My daughter and I are gonna try this awesome book, that is a (pinhole) camera! #ThisBookIsACamera #BelieveInFilm

Chad Hill@chadhill· 26d

Huh. “Phatmobile, MadMax Edition” A heavily customized ‘91 Geo Metro convertible spotted on our way home tonight. I unironically love it. #WeirdCarBS #Philadelphia

Rear view of an extremely odd one-of-a-kind geo metro showing its custom badges and weird extra brake lights on a custom wing.

View of the side/rear of the same car showing how it is a geo metro with flames and a crazy wing.

Chad Hill@chadhill· 26d

Old American Legion Post, Philadelphia 2026 Canon a800 (diy infrablue filter) #ShittyCameraChallenge #Infrared

A false color image of a Tudor revival style building with some artillery out front.

Chad Hill@chadhill· 27d

Friendship Arch, Chinatown, Philadelphia 2026 Pentax I-10, Trichrome #ShittyCameraChallenge #TrichromeParty

The “friendship gate” a tall ceremonial arch in Philadelphia, viewed from the north because the street was closed. In false color via the “trichrome” process.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jul 8

Out for a run, Philadelphia 2026 Kodak Charmera, Pixel Filter Rules are rules, I encountered a big mirror. #ShittyCameraChallenge

A mirror selfie in high contrast black and white shows a bearded man on a wooded street taking a picture with a tiny shitty camera.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jul 7

Mom and Dad, New Jersey 2026 Seneca Improved View 8x10, Astragon 210mm 4.5, long expired single weight fiber paper negative. The test shots for the ambrotype I posted previously. #BelieveInFilm

A man and a woman pose for a photo on a small bench. The man holds a guitar.

A man and a woman pose for a photo with the woman leaning her head on the man’s shoulder.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jul 7

Drink Selection, Dunkin’, Philadelphia 2026 Kodak Charmera, Pixel filter #ShittyCameraChallenge

A low res, high contrast image of 4 shelves of drinks in a gas station/Dunkin’ Donuts.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jul 5

Mom and dad, New Jersey, July 4th 2026 Seneca Improved View 8x10, Astragon 210 4.5, Zebra black glass Ambrotype The new dev process and black glass combo is wonderful. So hard to do these justice with a cell scan. #BelieveInFilm #Ambrotype #LargeFormat

A large format image on black glass. A portrait of a man and a woman sitting on a bench. The man plays a guitar. The woman looks at the man and sticks her tongue out at him.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jul 3

Shitty Camera Photographers, NJ 2026 Benson Instant Box Camera, Graflex Optar 4.7, Arista Ultra grade 2 paper Check out these camera nerds. (With @isaacblomqvist.bsky.social) #ShittyCameraChallenge #InstantBoxCamera

A young man wears a Fed shirt from the Crappy Commie Camera challenge and stares at the camera.

A bearded man in a zorki shirt holds a zorki camera.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jul 2

Having a great time nerding out and shooting “instant” photos with @isaacblomqvist.bsky.social for the #ShittyCameraChallenge I think the #InstantBoxCam qualifies 3 ways despite being “LF”!: 1. The ur “instant” cam 2. Dead format: (RPPC/plates/ftypes) 3. Crazy hard to use/insane process = 💩🎞️ 😅😅🤷‍♂️

Front view of nephew focusing the benson street camera on me.

Our fist negative of the day pulled out of the back after fixing!

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jul 1

Hooray, it’s #ShittyCameraChallenge eve and the matching (ish) shirts I ordered to share with my nephew arrived! Gonna give him a shirt and lend him a fed and go #ShittyCameraChallenge shooting together! 🎄🎄🎄💩💩💩📸📸📸

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 30

#fedpost

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 30

Restored Barn, Ocean View, DE 2026 Pony Premo #4 (c. 1912), Planatograph 6.5” f8, Arista Ultra 400 (4x5), LF trichrome #BelieveInFilm #TrichromeEverything

A false color picture of a barn. I just thought it was a pretty barn. 🤷‍♂️

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 29

Worlds First Commercial Broiler (1923), Ocean View, DE 2026 Pony Premo #4 (c. 1912), Planatograph 6.5” f8, Arista Ultra 400 (4x5), LF trichrome Dubious historical import??? #BelieveInFilm #TrichromeEverything #poultry

Color trichrome image of a “historic” wooden shack with a small blue sign.

Historic marker for this building. It reads: “OCEAN VIEW, DELAWARE:
BIRTHPLACE OF THE COMMERCIAL BROILER INDUSTRY. In 1923, Cecile Long Steele started a flock of 500 chicks, At 16 weeks, they weighed 2¼ pounds and sold for 62 cents a pound. By 1989, growers produce birds of twice the weight in alf the time. Sussex County leads
the nation in broiler production, now a multibillion dollar industry.”

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 28

Ocean View Post Office (1889), Ocean View, DE 2026 Pony Premo #4 (c. 1912), Planatograph 6.5” f8, Arista Ultra 400 (4x5). #BelieveInFilm

An old white post office viewed head on.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 28

Ah, bummer. For some of my later lenses I have an external “Silens” shutter with “instant” (~1/50ish) like a packard.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 28

I have a 220 for my regular nikkor tank, I don’t know they made a 220 for the bigger sheet film tank! Cool. I love that this one is adaptable to the smaller sheets, too, since I sometimes shoot some odball sizes.

Picture of the inner reel pulled from the tank showing the 4x5 sheets slotted into it and retained by a metal band.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 28

I am lucky to have several cameras from 1890-1910. It is extremely enjoyable to make pictures with these well made and functional machines. The oldest is an early 1890s French Radiguet 13x18 tailboard camera with working early Thornton Pickard shutter capable of 1/15-1/90. #BelieveInFilm (2/3)

Dramatic photo of an old wooden view camera.

Better photo showing the tailboard camera folded up.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 28

Playing “is it pictures” with the big tank. (Regular tank for scale). 😅😅 #Believeinfilm

A 4x5 nikkor tank, held in my hand, next to a regular 35/120 nikkor tank.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 27

The Buckbee Silver Gem, a c. 1887 open-back banjo. I think the oldest non-photography object I regularly use in my house. (1/3)

Selfie closeup playing the buckbee Silver gem.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 26

💯💯💯 Reskinning/refinishing new-to-you cameras is the bees knees. 👍👍👍👍 😅😅😅

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 24

The domke f3 all packed up with everything but the tripod: pony Premo, film, 6 holders, meter; dark cloth; focusing aid.

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 24

Screw your f64 group, my lens goes to f128! 😅 n.b. f128 in the older US (Uniform System) aperture numbering is only f45 in the “modern” aperture system. 😅😅😅

Closeup screenshot of the camera showing an aperture scale that goes from 4-128. But these are not modern numbers and are the equivalent of 8-45

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 24

Today’s carry. Shooting some local “historic” sites with a camera that was already approaching obsolescence when constructed. 😅😅 The pony Premo #4 c. 1912. #BelieveInFilm #TrichromeEverything

Chad Hill@chadhill· Jun 23

Sad end for the Pz-1p. I liked this camera more than its plasticky body, perhaps, warranted. Very close to being the perfect k1-ii companion since it can control aperture for modern k lenses and will autofocus with many. But it behaved weirdly, smelled like it had a short, and now won’t turn on.