by Ben Carpenter | May 9, 2023 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. Continue Reading
by Ben Carpenter | May 9, 2023 LUFT 9 on the Leica M11: Less is More Air Cooled Porsches, Watches, Cameras and a great opportunity for photography. Sean and Ben visit Luft 9 on historic Mare Island Naval base and test out the M11 and M11 Monochrom side by side. Continue Reading
April 18, 2023 Canon R8: Compact Size, Impressive Performance & Great Value If you're in the market for a high-quality full-frame mirrorless camera, the Canon R8 is worth considering. As one of Canon's latest offerings, the R8 packs a punch with a 24.2-megapixel full-frame sensor, a versatile ISO range, and impressive video capabilities. Continue Reading
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