Thanks for the detailed breakdown. Those are points clearly could only have been noticed by someone who experiences both the Leica rangefinder and regular modern day mirrorless.

Like many, I definitely felt drawn to the mystique of Leica, but your comment may have squashed that bug, at least for now. I just wonder how Leica M users would respond. If you’re brave enough you should post these criticisms in their sub reddit lol.

The last thing I’ll say is that my photography got worse, not better, while shooting with that god-awful system. There are plenty of reasons I can explain if you’re interested.

I actually very interested. People keeping saying that shooting with the camera like lighter improves your photography because you have to slow down and think about all the settings instead of having the camera do the work. Also A rangefinder allows you to see the whole scene outside the borders of your lens, which is supposedly better for anticipating the subject and final image.

Then Leica is manual focus but the adapter allows it to autofocus.

That makes sense. I assumed all Leica lenses had superior optics due to the price. Didn’t realize they were so compromised.

The Leica is not an autofocus lens, but adding specific adapters does give it an auto focus capabilities.

https://youtu.be/h4xb2OR-vEU?si=BN4-EtyvwoYaM7Gf

https://youtu.be/QQn0ylA9mK4?si=IJEWkkRnbGMefCEK