>>3685601>I don't understand why anyone would want to spend that much moneyNobody wants to spend that much money. What we want is the experience of shooting with a Leica. It's different from shooting with almost any other camera out there, and some people (myself included) see value in that. Whether that value is equal to the extra money you have to pay for one is a very personal decision (and, based on your post, not the right choice for you), but it's all down to personal preference.
And it can definitely be hard to understand, because what it gives you is, effectively, roadblocks.
1. Manual focus only
2. Some of them don't even have a meter, so potentially manual exposure
3. Non-TTL viewfinder, so you have parallax issues, you can't see what filters are necessarily doing, you can't check your depth of field, etc.
4. 1950s-style ergonomics
But what you get out of it is that you feel more like you're *doing photography* than with most digital cameras that automate a lot of that shit for you. You're more involved in the process, and it makes you (or at least me) feel more connected to the final results.
An analogy I used in a previous /leica/ thread was that of a cabin in the woods vs a mansion. The cabin is objectively worse in just about every way. But some people legitimately prefer to live in a cabin, and some people who spend 99% of their lives in a mansion still want to have a little cabin to get away to for an occasional weekend because they want to get away from all of the trappings of civilization for a while. Shooting a Leica is kind of like that.
