>>4235815Leica knock offs ARE cheap to make. Rangefinders predated SLRs for a reason. You need less precision to put a working one together, it's compatible with old world mass manufacturing. Similar to an AK47, which can be made of stamped steel with few precision machined parts, versus an AR10 that requires more advanced facilities.
What is not cheap is holding on to a massive stock of rangefinders. Despite the memes you see as a photography hobbyist, most people do not one single fucking thing to do with rangefinders. All of the mass market demand for cameras that do not smash right eye dominant noses has long since been filled by the xpro, xe, x100, a6k, a7c, some lumix shit, etc. Rangefinder lenses adapt readily to mirrorless with few compromises anyone actually cares about, and voigtlander makes native versions of their better stuff anyways.
Leica is targeting a VERY low volume market, with a flawed design that is decidedly inferior and needs copes like curved microlenses to continue to function with the same mechanical mount spec (M mount and all mounts with similar specs, including all of mirrorless, are dysfunctional designs on digital - the film plane needs to be moved much further back, and that is fine as long as it's dead space a lens could still utilize, instead of a mirror box, but leica has swing-down metering cells on some shit...)
No reason to want a film rangefinder either since it locks you out of macro, ultra long/wide lenses, and polarizer use, and you can always buy cheap shit like canonets, petri 7s, and minolta hi-matics for less than you could ever hope to profitably sell the most cheaply made new production film camera of any design. If you produced something like a bessa r2, it would still have to sell for nearly $1000 brand new, due to the extremely low volume market.
>>4235819Jpeg also has issues because xtrans is defective by design
The correct solution to moire is an AA filter + bayer, MOAR MP, or foveon.
