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Yes, there is. While Rolex watches are just watches (personally, I stopped wearing a watch shortly after the mobile phone had become something I always carry) and Hermes bags are just bags, Leicas...

The thing is, they wouldn't sell it. Because it wouldn't come with Leica's 100-year-old lens and accessory universe.

Either that, or there are people who have too much money.

Depending on how you shoot, the image quality you achieve isn't necessarily worse at all. Also, not everyone buys those cameras for their 'convenience features'—it's just that there are no cameras...

Many people have a completely different experience with lenses from 7Artisans (or TTArtisan, for that matter), finding them decent lenses which are well made, too.

The era of cheap C-mount lenses being converted to mirrorless mounts is long gone, those offers never were even remotely as good as lenses like the one reviewed here. Despite its small faults at...

@MrQuimper: That car comparison, like about every car comparison, sucks. It claims a huge difference between two cameras, like the one between a lorry and a sedan, but doesn't even try to describe...

@TunicaAdventitia: Fuji's X-Pro type of camera can do that, but if I'm not mistaken, it does not help in confirming focus at the same time, as it isn't a real rangefinder; you're completely at the...

Definitely sounds fishy.

Which actually looks like it's a whole class above the "Rockstar", as it at least has a working diaphragm!

@TunicaAdventitia: "In what situations is the Leica more advantageous?"—The two most obvious things are, number one, when you want to use Leica M lenses, which is a more concrete version of "when...

Leica always was primarily about photography and still is, except for those limited editions which mainly go to collectors. The rangefinder is still the only viewfinder which lets you see a moving...

The rangefinder is the only finder type in which you can see a moving subject before it enters the frame. That's one of the reasons which make it special, and why some people still want it in a...

@Petka: It is not you and your personal preferences which define whether this is a 'great camera' or not. Money aside, for everyone who hates to carry the monstrosities every other manufacturer...

Three additions, perhaps:

1. AF plays a role insofar as it makes modern mirrorless lens designs much more complex if they're still supposed to be good. For fast AF the focusing group needs to be...

For a 2022 full-frame camera, ISO 12,500 is not high ISO at all. I don't even hesitate much to use that with my ancient Sony A7 II even though it's the worst FF sensor Sony ever made, hardly better...

I'd like to disagree. A Leica is nothing like an expensive car which is either ridiculously fast (but impractical) or ridiculously big and luxurious, or both.

A Leica is camera technology reduced...

There's probably a bit to improve by changing that "standard profile". And with regard to NR, the camera seems to do hardly anything against chroma noise which comes in an ugly, blotchy shape in as...

Sorry, but I find C1 one of the worst raw converters I've ever seen, with regard to default colours, fine-detail retention/ microcontrast, and noise reduction, too.

@keepreal: It's not just 'advertising', it's called 'capitalism' (in which 'advertising', of course, plays a central part), and this isn't a new thing in the present day, either. Actually, even...