What's New: Pre-Owned Gear - May 2023

While sifting through numerous bins of camera equipment and arranging them for your perusal in our weekly drop, we take mental notes of the most appealing, cost-effective, or collectible items. Our objective in "What's New" is to spot trends, identify great buys, and guide you in selecting the most suitable gear to add to your camera kit.

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Exclusive Look: Vintage Leica KS15 Military Camera

More than a wartime relic, the Leica KS-15 proved to be the basis for many innovations in the Leica M system that we have come to know and love today. During the Vietnam War, fewer than a thousand of these cameras were produced for the US Military, and even fewer exist today in such beautiful and complete form. Join Sean, the Owner of Camera West/Leica Store San Francisco and vintage Leica expert as he tells you everything you need to know about the Leica KS15 Camera.

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Cameras & Watches: Tools of Time

Watches and Cameras? An odd but wonderful pairing. One sentence, and you can skip this whole article of me waxing eloquent about my love for cameras and watches: Capturing and Telling the Time. Time is how Cameras and Watches relate. Cameras are part of how we experience things, remember things, document moments, and capture time. On the other hand, Watches are objects of time themselves, objects of telling the time.

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