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I don't know-- I'd take an A7rII over an M10 any day of the week... even if both were the same $2,700 price. Leica (like Fuji) may have a "look." But in terms of straight image quality (not to mention other features)... it's no comparison to me. There was a time, back in the film days, when Leica M was-- again, totally a matter of opinion here-- a serious, robust, hardy tool. Today I absolutely see Leica M as an expensive, cultural object used primarily for the fun of shooting. The A7rII @ $2,700 is an incredible buy imo, and the Leica is not a comparable camera (it has its own purpose for being), notably at $6,900!
The A9 is a different beast than either and isn't comparable. It's a professional sports/wildlife/perhaps wedding camera first and foremost. And it is priced like one!
I like aperture rings for functional reasons. I don't give a hoot about how my cameras look. I care about how they perform.
Shooting experience is 100% subjective. I prefer my A7rII by an order of magnitude over any other camera I've shot professionally in the last decade, and that includes cameras from every single series/line that Canon produces, some fuji, some medium format (film and digital), and view cameras. It felt alien at first, but after 6 months or so it surpassed everything that came before it.. for me.
There are many, many ways to skin a cat. I like skinning it with my A7rII now, and it's paid for itself over and over and over again. A few jobs ago, one of the rare times I wasn't assigned to photograph a story but I took some shots with my Batis 18mm and A7rII for documentation/record-keeping purposes... my photo editors chose my haphazard shots over those produced by someone else with a medium format back and meticulous lighting/composing.
On the other hand, I have a photo essay coming out in a few months in a major glossy mag from a 1-year investigative story I did on rhino poaching on 3 continents. I don't know what the final layout is going to be (~10 page)... but good chance it has photos in it from my past 5D2 and Fuji X-E1, and my current A7rII. Go figure!
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