Chad Hill
@chadhill.bsky.social
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”)
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”)
Look down, Philadelphia 2025
E-300 Olympus, kit lens, b+w “sepia” mode!
#ShittyCameraChallenge #Olympus
E-300 Olympus, kit lens, b+w “sepia” mode!
#ShittyCameraChallenge #Olympus
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Look down, Philadelphia 2025
E-300 Olympus, kit lens, b+w “sepia” mode!
#ShittyCameraChallenge #Olympus
E-300 Olympus, kit lens, b+w “sepia” mode!
#ShittyCameraChallenge #Olympus
They are beautiful tools. And their look was so distinctive. Here are the other two I previously converted (both are my father’s original copies from the time).
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
They are beautiful tools. And their look was so distinctive. Here are the other two I previously converted (both are my father’s original copies from the time).
Other-hobby cross posting:
I was recently gifted this beautiful Controlaire Galloping Ghost R/C transmitter c.1965, saved from the trash!
Tonight I finished converting it to work with modern (reliable) equipment. ❤️❤️
#VintageRC #RadioControl
I was recently gifted this beautiful Controlaire Galloping Ghost R/C transmitter c.1965, saved from the trash!
Tonight I finished converting it to work with modern (reliable) equipment. ❤️❤️
#VintageRC #RadioControl
December 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Other-hobby cross posting:
I was recently gifted this beautiful Controlaire Galloping Ghost R/C transmitter c.1965, saved from the trash!
Tonight I finished converting it to work with modern (reliable) equipment. ❤️❤️
#VintageRC #RadioControl
I was recently gifted this beautiful Controlaire Galloping Ghost R/C transmitter c.1965, saved from the trash!
Tonight I finished converting it to work with modern (reliable) equipment. ❤️❤️
#VintageRC #RadioControl
December 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
❤️
I thought about trying to take a photo of all my gripped bodies and, um, decided it would be too hard to line them all up. 😅 This is just the Ks from a while ago. 😅🙀😬
#WindersForLife #JustTheKs
I thought about trying to take a photo of all my gripped bodies and, um, decided it would be too hard to line them all up. 😅 This is just the Ks from a while ago. 😅🙀😬
#WindersForLife #JustTheKs
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
❤️
I thought about trying to take a photo of all my gripped bodies and, um, decided it would be too hard to line them all up. 😅 This is just the Ks from a while ago. 😅🙀😬
#WindersForLife #JustTheKs
I thought about trying to take a photo of all my gripped bodies and, um, decided it would be too hard to line them all up. 😅 This is just the Ks from a while ago. 😅🙀😬
#WindersForLife #JustTheKs
December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Rainy day at the Buttercup Cottage barn, Philadelphia 2025
E-300 Olympus, kit lens, b+w “sepia” mode!
Quick stop at my camera test location. Pretty nice for a 22 year old digital. Hard to believe it’s a pro-summer camera only 5 years removed from the D1. 😅
#ShittyCameraChallenge #Olympus
E-300 Olympus, kit lens, b+w “sepia” mode!
Quick stop at my camera test location. Pretty nice for a 22 year old digital. Hard to believe it’s a pro-summer camera only 5 years removed from the D1. 😅
#ShittyCameraChallenge #Olympus
December 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Rainy day at the Buttercup Cottage barn, Philadelphia 2025
E-300 Olympus, kit lens, b+w “sepia” mode!
Quick stop at my camera test location. Pretty nice for a 22 year old digital. Hard to believe it’s a pro-summer camera only 5 years removed from the D1. 😅
#ShittyCameraChallenge #Olympus
E-300 Olympus, kit lens, b+w “sepia” mode!
Quick stop at my camera test location. Pretty nice for a 22 year old digital. Hard to believe it’s a pro-summer camera only 5 years removed from the D1. 😅
#ShittyCameraChallenge #Olympus
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Oh snap, under 10px is so inclusive! 🙀
I also totally forgot this had an optical vf.
I also totally forgot this had an optical vf.
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Oh snap, under 10px is so inclusive! 🙀
I also totally forgot this had an optical vf.
I also totally forgot this had an optical vf.
Making friends, Amman 2025
Pentax 645n, 45-85 4.5, Kodak Gold
A local Bedouin shepherd in the city.
#BelieveInFilm #Fieldwork #Jordan
Pentax 645n, 45-85 4.5, Kodak Gold
A local Bedouin shepherd in the city.
#BelieveInFilm #Fieldwork #Jordan
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Making friends, Amman 2025
Pentax 645n, 45-85 4.5, Kodak Gold
A local Bedouin shepherd in the city.
#BelieveInFilm #Fieldwork #Jordan
Pentax 645n, 45-85 4.5, Kodak Gold
A local Bedouin shepherd in the city.
#BelieveInFilm #Fieldwork #Jordan
I thought I’d get a jump on the #ShittyCameraChallenge by popping the lovely(?) Fed 5b in my bag to shoot with as I walked across campus today.
But I managed to only grab color film on my way out the door! 😅🤦♂️🤦♂️
#BelieveInFilm #NoTheOtherFilm #CameraGear
But I managed to only grab color film on my way out the door! 😅🤦♂️🤦♂️
#BelieveInFilm #NoTheOtherFilm #CameraGear
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I thought I’d get a jump on the #ShittyCameraChallenge by popping the lovely(?) Fed 5b in my bag to shoot with as I walked across campus today.
But I managed to only grab color film on my way out the door! 😅🤦♂️🤦♂️
#BelieveInFilm #NoTheOtherFilm #CameraGear
But I managed to only grab color film on my way out the door! 😅🤦♂️🤦♂️
#BelieveInFilm #NoTheOtherFilm #CameraGear
In the lab, Ashoka Siddapur, Karnataka, India 2025
Ricoh GR1, motipix 50d
#BelieveInFilm #Fieldwork #India
Ricoh GR1, motipix 50d
#BelieveInFilm #Fieldwork #India
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
In the lab, Ashoka Siddapur, Karnataka, India 2025
Ricoh GR1, motipix 50d
#BelieveInFilm #Fieldwork #India
Ricoh GR1, motipix 50d
#BelieveInFilm #Fieldwork #India
Adventures in Museum Collections, Crystal Skull, British Museum, London 2025
Nikon f100, 50mm 1.4 G, HP5+
This faux antiquity has been in the BM collection for ~130 years. But now the museum signs grapple with the problems of how it was collected and represented in the past. 😅🥶🤔🤔
#BelieveInFilm
Nikon f100, 50mm 1.4 G, HP5+
This faux antiquity has been in the BM collection for ~130 years. But now the museum signs grapple with the problems of how it was collected and represented in the past. 😅🥶🤔🤔
#BelieveInFilm
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Adventures in Museum Collections, Crystal Skull, British Museum, London 2025
Nikon f100, 50mm 1.4 G, HP5+
This faux antiquity has been in the BM collection for ~130 years. But now the museum signs grapple with the problems of how it was collected and represented in the past. 😅🥶🤔🤔
#BelieveInFilm
Nikon f100, 50mm 1.4 G, HP5+
This faux antiquity has been in the BM collection for ~130 years. But now the museum signs grapple with the problems of how it was collected and represented in the past. 😅🥶🤔🤔
#BelieveInFilm
My best buddy, who I miss everyday, would demand to sleep in the crook of my arm under the blankets in the winter.
But I had to be really careful cause if I didn’t remember to put my insulin pump on the other side, he’d invariably gnaw through it and I’d wake up with terrible high blood sugars. 😬🤦♂️
But I had to be really careful cause if I didn’t remember to put my insulin pump on the other side, he’d invariably gnaw through it and I’d wake up with terrible high blood sugars. 😬🤦♂️
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 AM
My best buddy, who I miss everyday, would demand to sleep in the crook of my arm under the blankets in the winter.
But I had to be really careful cause if I didn’t remember to put my insulin pump on the other side, he’d invariably gnaw through it and I’d wake up with terrible high blood sugars. 😬🤦♂️
But I had to be really careful cause if I didn’t remember to put my insulin pump on the other side, he’d invariably gnaw through it and I’d wake up with terrible high blood sugars. 😬🤦♂️
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Muhlenverg’s Encampment, Valley Forge, Pennylvania 2025
B+J Grover 8x10, Wollaston 125mm f1.6mm, Lupex Contact Printing Paper (rated at ISO .02), ~6s @ f2.7.
#BelieveInFilm #PaperNegative #LargeFormat
B+J Grover 8x10, Wollaston 125mm f1.6mm, Lupex Contact Printing Paper (rated at ISO .02), ~6s @ f2.7.
#BelieveInFilm #PaperNegative #LargeFormat
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Muhlenverg’s Encampment, Valley Forge, Pennylvania 2025
B+J Grover 8x10, Wollaston 125mm f1.6mm, Lupex Contact Printing Paper (rated at ISO .02), ~6s @ f2.7.
#BelieveInFilm #PaperNegative #LargeFormat
B+J Grover 8x10, Wollaston 125mm f1.6mm, Lupex Contact Printing Paper (rated at ISO .02), ~6s @ f2.7.
#BelieveInFilm #PaperNegative #LargeFormat
Oh ffs:
Do. Not. Want.
Do. Not. Want.
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Oh ffs:
Do. Not. Want.
Do. Not. Want.
Faux Large Format Photographer, London 2025
Nikon f100, 24-120f4vr, hp5+
I crossed the street to check out what kinda camera he was shooting. He took a picture of me saying “oh it’s fake!” And handed me this cool printout. 😅
#BelieveInFilm #ButNotThisGuy 😂
Nikon f100, 24-120f4vr, hp5+
I crossed the street to check out what kinda camera he was shooting. He took a picture of me saying “oh it’s fake!” And handed me this cool printout. 😅
#BelieveInFilm #ButNotThisGuy 😂
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Faux Large Format Photographer, London 2025
Nikon f100, 24-120f4vr, hp5+
I crossed the street to check out what kinda camera he was shooting. He took a picture of me saying “oh it’s fake!” And handed me this cool printout. 😅
#BelieveInFilm #ButNotThisGuy 😂
Nikon f100, 24-120f4vr, hp5+
I crossed the street to check out what kinda camera he was shooting. He took a picture of me saying “oh it’s fake!” And handed me this cool printout. 😅
#BelieveInFilm #ButNotThisGuy 😂
The museum endures, London 2025
#TrichromeParty shot with Nikon f100, Nikon 17-35 2.8, hp5+
#BelieveInFilm #TrichromeEverything
#TrichromeParty shot with Nikon f100, Nikon 17-35 2.8, hp5+
#BelieveInFilm #TrichromeEverything
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The museum endures, London 2025
#TrichromeParty shot with Nikon f100, Nikon 17-35 2.8, hp5+
#BelieveInFilm #TrichromeEverything
#TrichromeParty shot with Nikon f100, Nikon 17-35 2.8, hp5+
#BelieveInFilm #TrichromeEverything
Yeah, internet obsession with them has driven the price way up and I assumed I’d never own one!
But the vast majority are hamstrung by broken/breaking lcd cables. And I’m super pleased I was able to get mine repaired!
But the vast majority are hamstrung by broken/breaking lcd cables. And I’m super pleased I was able to get mine repaired!
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Yeah, internet obsession with them has driven the price way up and I assumed I’d never own one!
But the vast majority are hamstrung by broken/breaking lcd cables. And I’m super pleased I was able to get mine repaired!
But the vast majority are hamstrung by broken/breaking lcd cables. And I’m super pleased I was able to get mine repaired!
Yup, that is their downfall. Very prone to irreparable and sudden failure. But since so underloved, $20 will get you a new one! 😅😅😅
My allllll time fav is the super program. I guess people don’t like the push buttons but it’s so tiny and perfect.
My allllll time fav is the super program. I guess people don’t like the push buttons but it’s so tiny and perfect.
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Yup, that is their downfall. Very prone to irreparable and sudden failure. But since so underloved, $20 will get you a new one! 😅😅😅
My allllll time fav is the super program. I guess people don’t like the push buttons but it’s so tiny and perfect.
My allllll time fav is the super program. I guess people don’t like the push buttons but it’s so tiny and perfect.
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I love so many k mount cameras and the k1000 is probably my least favorite! But it was so often a first camera, so it has the nostalgia factor.
Super Program is also wildly under-loved, but such an awesome tiny camera, even gripped.
I love so many k mount cameras and the k1000 is probably my least favorite! But it was so often a first camera, so it has the nostalgia factor.
Super Program is also wildly under-loved, but such an awesome tiny camera, even gripped.
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I love so many k mount cameras and the k1000 is probably my least favorite! But it was so often a first camera, so it has the nostalgia factor.
Super Program is also wildly under-loved, but such an awesome tiny camera, even gripped.
I love so many k mount cameras and the k1000 is probably my least favorite! But it was so often a first camera, so it has the nostalgia factor.
Super Program is also wildly under-loved, but such an awesome tiny camera, even gripped.
Beauty! And yes, not cheap, but definitely outside the Leica hype bubble! I feel similarly about the wonderful Hexar RF.
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Beauty! And yes, not cheap, but definitely outside the Leica hype bubble! I feel similarly about the wonderful Hexar RF.