February 9, 2023 Leica Revamps Leica Bundles & Announces Two new Prime Lenses for SL Leica has announced two Summicron lenses for the Leica SL system that position themselves as more accessible and lightweight options to the APO-Summicron-SL lenses—introducing the Leica 50mm f2.0 Summicron-SL ASPH and 35mm f2.0 Summicron-SL ASPH. In addition, Leica has announced bundles with these respective new lenses and the already existing 24-70mm f2.8 bundles currently available. Continue Reading
by Ben Carpenter | January 25, 2023 Scanning Basics With Negative Supply Negative Supply is a fantastic company based here in California that makes, creates, and invents some of the best gear for scanning your negatives and slides at home. Continue Reading
January 18, 2023 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. Continue Reading
by Ben Carpenter | July 8, 2022 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. Continue Reading
May 27, 2022 Thumb Prints & Signatures - The Leica CM The Leica CM is a compact point and shoot film camera built with a titanium body and houses a 40mm f2.4 Summarit lens. Continue Reading
by Ben Carpenter | May 20, 2022 Behind the Scenes of Vintage Leica Repair We want to share this film with you so you can see get an inside look at Youxin Ye’s passion for vintage Leica cameras. Continue Reading
by Ben Carpenter | May 19, 2022 The Leica M10 - A Value Proposition Could the Leica M10 be the greatest digital M camera of all time? Maybe the value proposition of this camera makes it worth a look in today's market! We think the Leica M10 is, as they say, "Everything you need and nothing you don't." Continue Reading
by Ben Carpenter | March 3, 2022 Conversing Cameras: Bert Celeridad This week on Conversing cameras we chat with Bert Celeridad, a street photographer and avid film photographer from Coronado California. Bert always seems to be trying something new, and we have come well acquainted through many photographic gear exchanges! Continue Reading
by Ben Carpenter | March 3, 2022 Conversing Cameras: Robert Chestnut This "Conversing Cameras" feature I have thoroughly enjoyed! This conversation is packed with a lot - When faced with a life or death Kayaking situation, do you save the Nikon F2? Thoughts on the film in the days of rising film prices and rising developing prices? This week we talk to Robert Chestnut. Continue Reading