As a Nikon and MFshooter, I totally see BC's point about Nikon's color rendition not being the best suited to portraiture. Yes, you can make that horse dance to your tune, but it's gonna take a lot of training.
That aside, a nice review of the body from Michael. I agree with those above, the colors do look wonderful. The problem have is that even with the revised pricing, this camera offers very little more than the Pentax (Which is about half the price), and a smaller sensor to boot. A lot of people have difficulty accepting that 44x33 is "True MF" or whatever, which makes this 135+ .
The way I see it,
- If one just wants to go CMOS MF, prefers an all in one body and does not particularly care about leaf shutter lenses, there is the Pentax
- If one wants to go CMOS MF and use their existing technical camera gear, there is the Hasselblad CFV 50c
- If one wants a cheap, view camera package with CMOS MF, there is the Credo 50 + Cambo Actus combo
- If money is no bar and one has some specific requirements (C1P compatible workflow, for one), there is Phase One
I am really struggling to see where this Leica fits in.