>I also have the G1, having chosen it over the G2 for the somewhat smaller size. I can get it and an extra lens into a remarkably small bag, a belt pouch, in fact. I don't consider it lightweight by today's standards, though; it is ruggedly-built instead. The Voigtlander you are considering will do basically what the G cameras will do, but manually only. I have the original R camera. It is not ideal for rapid work, although to some extent it can adapt to such applications if you are skilled and in practice with it. The R is somewhat underbuilt and plasticky, but gives you a real benefit in size and weight savings as a result. The camera is delightful to hold and wonderfully thin and jacket-pocketable. The lenses are good, with the benefit of many aperture blades. They may not test as well as Zeiss, but in practice they deliver very nice results, rather lower in contrast than Zeiss. They have half-stop clicks where many Zeiss lenses do not. You may find composition difficult with the Voigtlander when using longer lenses, because the finder is non-zooming, making the frames for these quite small. A benefit accrues here owing to the fact that you can observe things outside the frame to be photographed: what is about to come into the frame, that is, in action situations such as parades and dancing. As I say, handling these cameras is very pleasurable in a way that can't quite be described, but style of photography and types of subjects will favor one camera over the other to some extent. All the whirring, grinding noises, lens parking, etc. are absent with the R's, making your G feel like a Teutonic rattletrap by comparison, however autofocus and auto-wind are missed when your're used to them and don't have them. Generally I feel the R's support a slower, more considered type of photography, so you shouldn't think you'll be getting the same thing as a G in a smaller, lighter package. The R's are based on the classic rangefinder designs, and they require some discipline and practice. Except by zone-focussing (with the consequent spotty results), they cannot really be used as point-and-shoots the way the G's can. But the camera won't mis-focus for you unless the rangefinder is out of adjustment; you have to make that mistake yourself, so to speak. Chas.