Well, let's see ... it's very well made, small and easy to carry.
In terms of shooting speed, that depends. To take a picture, assuming you are carrying the camera in its leather case (it has no strap lugs on the body), you have to: 1) Open the case. 2) Extend the lens. 3) Raise the gunsight and little centering knob thing (the second version of the camera has a straight-through viewfinder, but I don't have that one). 4) Advance the film. 5) Pop off the cap. 6) Hold the camera up like a digital, about 10 inches from your face. 6) Take the picture. 7) Replace the cap.
If you're walking around with the case open and the camera ready to go, the process is much faster; just advance the film, pop the cap, raise it to your face and shoot.
The reason I say you have to advance the film in this order is the only way to change the shutter speed is while you're advancing the film. You advance it until a little red dot on the film speed dial aligns with a mark on the body, then you can lift and drag the dial to get to the speed you want. You can advance the film right after you shoot, but then you can't change the shutter speed again until after the next picture is taken.
The shutter speeds are marked in slit widths, not the speeds you're used to, but I can't remember the sequence off the top of my head. I know the top one is 2 and the slowest speed is 50, and to get the equivalent speed you divide these into 1,000 (so 2 becomes 1/500th of a second, and 50 becomes 1/20th of a second). It's easy once you have run through them a couple of times. There's also a "bulb" setting.
Changing the shutter speed is the biggest pain. Sometimes you can overshoot the dot and then you can't change the shutter speed without taking another picture first. The aperture is easy, just like an old Elmar.
And that brings us to the best part of the camera, namely the lens. It's the best Leica lens I have. Of course, you have to guess focus as there is no rangefinder, but I have an external rangefinder that's calibrated to account for the 10-inch offset when holding the camera in front of my face.
On a sunny day you can set the lens to f/12, the shutter speed to 2 (or 1/500th), the focus to 7 meters and then just snap away and depth of field will do the rest.
The bottom line is it's a very unusual camera but it takes good pictures and is fun to use. But it's certainly not everyone's cup of tea.
