Leica Q vs X100v or stick with xt4

Truman Prevatt wrote:

Nielk Mike wrote:

The x100v is more like a fashion statement.

I Greg still around? I thought he skedaddled over to the medium format forum. He was fond of talking about Leica jewelry.

The Greg is long gone.  Hasn’t participated in DPR for years now.  I don’t expect he’ll be returning, either.

I guess it doesn't matter the iconic photographers and iconic images taken by photographers using a Leica. While the X100V is not a Leica is is built on the same lines. It's not a Q2 but the X100V is a wonderful little camera that produces wonderful images. Of course the Q2 is FF with twice as many MP and no XTrans to hamper it. But even at that the X100V holds its own.

Neither can compete with my Q2M which a true 47 MP and no color array to limit resolution in sight and BTW no red dot in sight. On the other hand before anyone comments - I don't personally care for color and don't do color. The Q2M is expensive. However, no other camera company caters to B&W photography - only Leica. And the Q2M is a fashion statement - it is a work of industrial design art. Nothing wrong with that - now is there?

On the other hand to the OP - the ILC provides flexibility a fixed lens camera cannot. While 95% of my shots are using the Q2M, I still have the Fuji Pro3 for those times I need a longer lens. I also keep it around for the OVF when I'm using if off horseback. The Q2 and X100V are wonderful cameras but there are limitations. Sure photojournalism up until about 1960 was delivered by the Leica M. Such iconic pictures in Life Magazine covering WWII and Vietnam were delivered by the Leica M with only a few exceptions delivered by Grayflex Press cameras. Great W. Eugene Smith images in the war in the Pacific and Robert Capa's covering of D-Day when he went in with the Marines onto Omaha Beach. Then there was the two iconic images that change a nation's view of the US involvement in Vietnam, Eddy Adams' "Saigon Execution" and Nick Ut's "Napalm Girl" taken by the Leica M. That was because there was no SLR until 1955 and no reliable one that a reporter or war correspondent would trust before the mid 1970's.

Sure the Leica M is an ILC but the range of focal lengths is limited.

To the OP if you can afford a Q2 or X100V while keeping the XT ILC, that would be the way to go.