I'm not getting defensive.
You certainly have been.
Just wondering why someone that admittedly doesn't like rangefinders would worry enough to come into a camera threat that is about a rangefinders and tell everyone all the limitations that camera has to them.
Only mentioned because someone brought rangefinders up Vs other viewfinders in a sneering manner. To repeat myself for possibly the third time, I was interested in the B+W sensor, the camera form factor was irrelevant.
You can control tone, density and contrast. I do it all the time. It does take some knowledge and practice to get good at.
But you cannot alter tonal balance between colours in the raw file - channel mixing. A very useful attribute, very handy for skin tones for example.
You can modify tone exactly the way you could with B&W film and it works quite well You just have to see and filter for it when you shoot it.
And just like with B+W film it is a pain in the posterior to do and not always practical. Particularly for street photography, what people say this sort of camera is good at.
BTW, I am not saying the camera is bad just that it is limited in an old fashioned way. Limits can be good, sometimes they are hobbling. It's like shooting colour film with a white balance that cannot be changed. Yes filters can be used for correcting white balance, but they are not able to cope with mixed temperature lighting. Much better to shoot raw and get WB right in post.
And if you have not spent any real time with one how do you know? I would never comment on a camera I have never shot with.
But I haven't commented on the camera itself, the problems of not being able to channel mix with a B+W sensor yes. Anyway saying this thread is only for Leica users is rather snobbish, which is sadly an atribute I associate with Leica shooters because of well..their snobby behaviour.
When I used PCs I kept up to date with Apple gear and usually knew more about how to use them than Apple owners did [and vice versa now]. I like to keep abreast of all cameras/computers not just the ones I own. That way I can have a more balanced, less partisan view of things.