Meanwhile, the important elements in the review, like image quality and results, tended to be along the lines of
well, the RX1 is better, but... this is Leica!.
The T may be painting with a smaller canvas than my
previous camera, the Sony RX1, but it’s still managing
to paint beautiful ones.
Yes, the Sony RX1 does a superior job at capturing detail, but the Leica seems to have pretty good noise performance and renders images with wonderfully calm color.
it does seem to suffer from inaccurate auto focus in
poor light. I haven’t been too bothered as I’m coming
from the Sony RX1 and the Fuji X100 before that; both
known to lack in this department.
So why not, then, get the RX1 instead? Sure, it takes better photos, but it's
not Leica, and so it "
lacks soul".
And taking some of the pieces of the review together makes it seem even more ridiculously hagiographic:
The T refuses to battle in the megapixel wars or
*include gimmicky features.* Everything about the
T is about removing the extraneous and getting the
best performance out of the materials at hand.
The T even has built-in Wi-Fi and can connect with an
iOS device using the Leica T app. [really!?]
Turning the power switch beyond the on position will
eject the *built-in flash.* [a small, P&S popup flash...]
The strap connects to the camera using a *proprietary
locking pin* that simply clicks into the camera.
As you may know, the Leica T is *hand polished for 45
minutes* before the final finishing stages.
No, no gimmicky features at all...