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Chad Hill

@chadhill.bsky.social

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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.bsky.social · 1h

"Chad's 1-hour Photo" 😅🤷‍♂️

Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 1h

I love my neighbors (cont’d), Mt Airy, Philadelphia 2025

Bessa L, Chroma Double Glass 24mm, Fuji 200

#BelieveInFilm #NoKings

A man holds a sign that says “im-🍑 the wanna-🐝 dick-tater”

View across the intersection of a crowd of folks holding signs in front of an acme grocery.

Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 9h

While l prices are low, I got mine specifically for this lens combo. I don’t shoot other m39 lenses because it doesn’t have a rangefinder and I hate zone focusing.

The T also goes for much less than an R, and If I were buying again I’d probably try to get a T instead so I could use my other m39s.

Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 9h

I LOVE this particular combo with the L, because the Chroma double glass is fixed focus, and fixed aperture. You can set the exposure by looking at the external light meter before you bring the camera to your face. So it’s extremely quick! And I love the way this lens renders an image.

BUT…

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 10h

Awesome!

Yeah, I wish I’d been able to spend more time there. I’m usually rushing to get to our fieldwork project, so mostly only manage to stay in Bengaluru for a night at a time and often only by the airport! 😥

Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 10h

I love my neighbors (cont’d), Mt Airy, Philadelphia 2025

Bessa L, Chroma Double Glass 24mm, Fuji 200

#BelieveInFilm #NoKings

A person in a costume holds up a sign that says “protect trans youth”.

3 people stand on a road holding signs like “This is your sign”.

A woman in a witch had holds a sign that says “No Kings or “dick”tators. Honk if you agree”.

An older man sits in a bench with a sign that says “know your parasites: deer tick, dog tick, lunatic”.

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 10h

I love my neighbors (cont’d), Mt Airy, Philadelphia 2025

Bessa L, Chroma Double Glass 24mm, Fuji 200

#BelieveInFilm #NoKings

View along Germantown avenue showing protesters with signs that say things like “WWJD?, Not This!”

A man stands in the intersection holding a sign that says “Mt Airy Vets Stand For Freedom, not a king, not fascism”.

Two cardboard signs leaning on a fence that read “this is democracy” and “never stop believing , no kings”.

Two people hold a sign that reads “no 👑 for a 🤡”

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 11h

I love my neighbors (cont’d), Mt Airy, Philadelphia 2025

Bessa L, Chroma Double Glass 24mm, Fuji 200

#BelieveInFilm #NoKings

A man holds a sign that says “I love America, No Kings”.

A couple holds a sign that says “history will remember your resistance”.

An older man sits with a sign that says “for my gramdchildren”.

A view of a man and woman holding signs that say “rise up, defend democracy, resist tyranny” and “reject tyranny, no kings”.

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 11h

I love my neighbors, Mt Airy, Philadelphia 2025

Bessa L, Chroma Double Glass 24mm, Fuji 200

A small local gathering instead of the bigger one downtown.

#BelieveInFilm #NoKings

View across an intersection of a small crowd of “No Kings” protesters in nw Philadelphia.

A man in a costume with an American flag cape poses in front of a library.

A man holds up a sign that says “this Jawn is still outta pocket”.

A group stands together and one man holds a sign that says “protect Medicaid for my mom”.

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 16h

🤞🤞for light lens lab...

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 18h

Playing “is it pictures?” with some dragonfilms no. IV.

It’s pictures, but it’s a little thin. And by thin I mean both the negatives and also it’s a crazy thin PET base! Apparently Svema 42l aerial film.

#BelieveInFilm #IsItPictures #Pyro510

A flattened canister of Dragon no. IV film held in my hand.

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 21h

Around the lab, Ashoka Siddapur, Karnataka, India 2025

Ricoh GR1, Motipix 50d

This building serves as a field lab and storage for our project.

#Fieldwork #India #BelieveInFilm

A photo of a yellow building with some people sitting around.

Closeup shot of the metal gate at the front of the building with a golden colored lock hanging from it.

Detail of a colorful but dilapidated sign on the front of the building

View through a window in the back of the building, showing bricks piled up.

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 21h

Nice!

Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 1d

The days after, Philadelphia 2024

17x25 van dyke brown print on water color paper.

Apropos of nothing, revisiting this series from the fall.

#nokings #believeinfilm #printparteh

A large large print of an image of a Harris Walz sign discarded on the ground and covered in leaves.

Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!! ❤️

Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 1d

Ohh, awesome. Would love to see!

Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome! ❤️

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 1d

The road to Roppa village (cont’d), Karnataka, India 2025

Ricoh GR1, Kentmere 100, Pyro 510

This bit of shady, tree-lined road, adjacent to our site, is one my favorite spots in the area.

#BelieveInFilm #Fieldwork #India

Black and white photo of a piece of fabric blowing in a light breeze from the branch of a beautiful tree.

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 2d

I think I have that lens but could only find the similar 28-80 3.5-4.5 A. Definitely doesn’t look like that. 😅

The front element of the 28-80 Pentax zoom.

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 2d

And I’d already been starting to collect hand me down Pentax and Ricoh film gear and so had a bunch of Pentax mf A primes. 😅

Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 2d

No, I don’t think they made a monochrome k1? I have the regular ii.

I had always been a Nikon person but one of my fieldwork projects got (and still uses!) a k20d in ‘09 that was great for fieldwork. When I was buying a new body I wanted a ff and wr but couldn’t swing a Nikon fx body at the time.

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 2d

Also, brands I like: I keep mentioning Zebra dry plates. Currently the only (but hopefully not for long) company producing dry plates and also dry tintypes. they are expanding/innovating too, and just released a faux oratype, new tank, and are threatening to produce new autochromes.

#PhotoChat

8x10 Tintype of a man with a bicycle in front of the Philadelphia art museum.

Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 2d

Q4: always hard to pick a favorite kit, but I loaded my domke bag with this setup last weekend, out doing outdoor stuff with my family, and it’s pretty rad shooting with awesome late nikon film gear and digital era lenses!

F100, 24-120 f4 vr, 50 1.8G, 70-300 VR, 17-35 2.8d, 35ti

#Nikon #PhotoChat

4 nikon lenses standing on their ends on a table.

A closeup of the nikon 35ti in front of an f100

Overhead “what’s in the bag” shot, showing all of the lenses and cameras in a single shoulder bag.

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 2d

Well they are owned by Ricoh who also made k mount lenses (and bodies) for a long time before they owned Pentax!

I love my k1ii and shoot it with modern Pentax lenses and the occasional vintage film era prime. Could even mount an m42 on there!

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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 2d

In the desert, eastern Jordan 2025

Nikon f100, 24-120 f4 vr, motipix 50d

#Fieldwork #BelieveInFilm

A decrepit building in the desert, seen through the window of another building.

An empty can of “Chicken Luncheon” on a rock.

A crushed sardine can blending in with the desert.

Another view through an old window. With a desert view into the distance.

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