Ok I know I am walking on thin Ice here, this is the Leica part of the Forum, but excuse my maybe naive question:
If a camera that was and is famous for fast and light speed photography will not deliver the full image quality (which is expensively paid for- mostly for this purpose !) at exactly this purpose, isn´t this kind of a paradoxon ?
We are talking here of maybe 7000 € for a body, maybe another 7-8000 € for a nocti- or summilux, still no autofocus, no stabilization.
I am also no parkinson patient, I have shot quite some meters of film and files out of hand. But I know where my limits are. 1/15th with a deep breath, some leaning to walls or other parts of existing "helpers" maybe doing bursts of some shots to get one "acceptable sharp" one, a good monopod maybe brings me down to a 1/4 sec. But that´s it. And of 10 of these shots 1-2 are pretty good, 3-4 are somehow acceptable if the motive is interesting and dominating the file and the other 5 are for the binch.......
None of these will be 100% unless a lucky shot 1 out of 100, by chance.
Add to this that me as a glass wearing photographer (since I´m 14) never became friends with the Leica M finder.
I would have loved to test a more mobile usage, but Leica could not deliver the EVF (maybe I will still get it for 1-2 days, there´s a small chance left) and on the weekend I will shoot people with it (Wasserburg Mideval festival). So lets see how it goes for portraits.
I am not testing a legend, I test cameras.
Regards
Stefan