LOL---but I had never heard it referred to as a 'bridge camera'--or maybe I just missed the discussion of it in those terms.
When I think of a bridge camera I think of a DLSR styled fixed lens, smaller sensor 10x (at least) zoom camera. I've never considered an interchangeable lens camera a 'bridge'. In my mind at least, the smaller less expensive DSLRs in all systems are entry level DSLRS utilizing the same lenses as the big boys/girls--and I hadn't even considered the G1 from that angle really--since its just a different format, a new standard.
Diane
Well, it is not a dSLR, since it lacks (happily...) the reflex finder, mirror flap &c. It is not a P/S, since it has lens interchangeability, and too much bulk. Also, it has a "grown-up" sensor size (I´d like to stick out my neck, and call it "full-frame", just to show the meaninglessness of this term; just because Oscar Barnack used 2 frames of cinema film in his prototype in 1914, it doesn´t necessarily mean it´s the ideal size for a silicon chip in 2009...:lecture
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It´s something *between* a P/S and a dSLR, which is usually termed a "bridge" for some reason. It might even be said to be something between a "bridge" and a dSLR. A bridge too many?
Seriously, who cares? It´s a great camera, and that´s enough!