I think this will be the end of my Nikon P5000 experiments for a while. I explored image quality and speed for shooting monochrome images over the last week or two and came away satisfied.
The controls and speed on the P5000 are fast enough if you work at prefocusing. Since you can chose aperture and the sensor is so small, it’s easy enough to get good depth of field with a prefocus. The quality is good and has it’s own sharp, full of depth signature look. It’s very different from the way the Leica draws a scene, but the P5000 is tiny and provides a digital workflow at low cost.
On my next trip I plan on bringing the P5000 along in addition to the Leica and trying some city street scenes for comparison.