can't argue with Leica owners! they do make great products.
Leica does need to get their act together if they wish to continue to compete. It was silly of them to introduce the M240 without the production capacity to meet the demand of loyal M9 owners--many that wished to upgrade. Easy revenue. Camera's such as the A7r will now cause part of that segment to drift (and at a more attractive price). Opportunity lost for Leica.
Leica glass is nice. However, most images get posted to the net now, so the benefits of wonderful glass and large sensors is really becoming more of a pixel peeper problem rather than a creative user problem. Even the A7r is major overkill for just about any practical use I can think of. But I ordered one anyway.
I seriously doubt anyone springing for these new high-performance cameras have the objective of displaying sub one meg, sRGB color-space images on a back-lit screen ... a screen that is more likely a cell phone, tablet or lap-top than a 27" or 30" color calibrated monitor.
IMO, if the sensor quality is up to snuff, there's no such thing as over-kill when it comes to prints. There is good enough for certain imagery, more than enough for others, and as expansive as you may want it for yet others.
Those that work with the big Phase One backs on a tech camera with incomparable optics aren't after a cell phone sized display of the result.
Like them, most of my work has the ultimate objective of being printed. I may shoot hundreds of shots to get one worth printing ... but that is no different from when I shot film. I want the best I can afford going in, even if it is for that one in a thousand shot.
I just did an outdoor family portrait session with a mix of candid and pre-planned shots ... did over 300 shots total, edited to 60 plus variations for presentation, and sold almost 15 prints from that ... including three 17" X 22"s two of which were crops ... high performance can make a difference.
Frankly, it never ceases to amaze me what a print brings to the party after staring at a screen image while prepping it.
There simply is no comparison.
- Marc