O.K., I get it. A nice little box to which lovely little Leica-mount lenses can be attached. And I certainly can live with 12Mp (with plumper pixels). But why oh why would I ever think of spending $3300 for such a thing. I just don't get the thinking of the marketing/engineering thinking here. Cosina, where are you??
Well, I am starting to think about it like this ...
Have you ever dated someone who had really great qualities you appreciated, but also had bothersome ticks you just had to deal with?
Are you willing to deal with the ticks to benefit from unique camera specs?
The Pixii has qualities that no other M camera has, and solves problems that no other M camera can - IF THOSE ADVANTAGES ARE IMPORTANT TO YOUR SHOOTING.
1) GLOBAL SHUTTER - NO distortion. Race cars, motorcyles, athletes, sports, planes etc all shot with ZERO shutter distortion.
2) SILENT Shutter -no need for a sound blimp shooting movie sets, press conferences, street shooting you want to be quiet about
3) 1/32000 shutter - five stops faster than your film Leica M, 3 stops faster than your M10. You can shoot wide open easier without filters, as well as stop action like you have never stopped action before
4) the 12MP sensor..well anyone remember the 6MP magic of the Nikon D100 taking over the Press world in 2002?
Guess what, those tiny 6MP pics are still generating revenue. 12MP is large enough to sell the images if those images are wanted.
What it amounts to is whether or not you can figure out a way to produce unique pics with the unique quality of this camera.
If you are a photo student, probably not. If you are a well paid press, sports, scientific or PR photog, that's more like it.