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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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.

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