Daniel - This blog post was super helpful! 

Ruby asked a photographer friend and he pointed us to the canon EOS-M.  We found a few side-by-side comparisons:

http://www.dpreview.com/products/compare/side-by-side?products=canon_eosm&products=panasonic_dmcgx1&sortDir=ascending
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/photography-video-capture/cameras/canon-eos-m-vs-panasonic-gx1-1090252

I think we're going to stick with your conclusion and get the panasonic you described above.  It doesn't seem that for the extra cost we're  getting that much more unless we already had a bunch of canon lenses, which we dont.  We're going to be much more casual photographers and in reality we're probably going to take a ton of pictures of our son.  

Seeing the pictures you've produced so far have been impressive!  keep the updates coming.

Here are some great pics I just took with the 20mm pancake lens.  I just did a full shootout review of it here.

Daniel, 

I upgraded from the Lumix G1 to the G5 and am very glad I did. I shot this image of my brother-in-law and his wife without flash at ISO 1600. At full resolution, it's quite impressive. Here, I've compressed it for on-line viewing. 

The G5 has many scene settings. I used a night portrait setting for this shot.

Brooks

Ran across this photog that's doing AMAZING HDR stuff!
 

http://prints.abpan.com

https://www.facebook.com/abpan

BTW here's a gorgeous pic that my wife @SueOdio took using my brother @SamOdio's D-60 camera:

You can find the full wedding gallery right here.  Shots were taken either with my GX1 using the 14-42mm power zoom lens, or @Isaac's GX1 using the 20mm portrait lens, or using Sam's D60.

Last week, @IsaacMosquera and I did an evaluation of a new 20mm 1.7f lens for the GX 1, which you can find right here.

Now, some real-world results are in.  Below are two pictures -- the first taken by Isaac, and the second taken by me.  And let me say -- that 20mm lens is amazing for portraits.   

I just posted a followup of what I've learned in the first 14 days with the Lumix GX1 in the community section.

BTW Here are a few pro-tips for the GX1 I've found after using the camera for a few weeks:

1) The printed manual isn't complete.  There's an electronic version included with the DVD, or you can find a version on Panasonic Europe's website.  It's well worth reading to really understand how the camera works; I'm still going through it.

2) When I take multiple-exposure shots for HDR, the GX1 will automatically fire off five with consecutive exposure steps.  But after doing a few of those in a row, the camera needs some time to write the images to the SD card (although it *can* still keep taking photos for a bit, which is cool -- there's some type of built-in buffer.)  So I did some research on SD cards and realized that the regular "class 10" cards I've been using (like this one) are limited to 10mbps transfer.  There's a newer standard called UHS-1 which can do 50mpbs (and possibly even up to 100+mbps).  Trey had mentioned that he uses a card brand called Raw Steel, and now I understand why:  It uses this faster standard.  So I checked to see if the GX1 supports UHS-1 and it does!  So I may soon purchase a 16gb Raw Steel card, which costs $50 vs. $11.50 for the regular Class 10 Amazon branded SD card.

I'm not sure if the raw steel card is 45mbps or 95mpps, but there is also a SanDisk Extreme version that's 45mbps for $17.88 or a 95mbps version for $42.55, so those are other options too.

Adding to the string here ... stumbled on this at ThinkGeek .. that have the BEST stuff for random fits of "why didn't I think of that?"!

Capture SLR Camera Clip System

I went on a trip with my wife, brother and his dog over the weekend, and we got a few great pics.  I'll explain how we got them, and I'm also including metadata so you can get an idea of what the GX1's camera settings were:

I auto-shot 5 exposures of this pic and then imported them into Photomatix Pro to get this HDR version.  It's my favorite shot of the weekend.

This shot was taken by my brother Sam using his DSLR.  I used Trey's "Amazing Raisins" preset to pull the colors out.  Sam's not a huge fan of HDR pics; he prefers the natural look, so my guess is that he'll feel this shot is over-saturated.  I'll ping him to respond to the comment thread w/ his thoughts.  Great photography regardless, though!

This is a shot of my brother Sam and his Land Rover Defender.  A great shot.  I used the set it and forget it "intelligent auto" functionality of the GX1 to get this shot.  Basically no matter what mode you're in, you can press one button and the camera goes into "dumb user" mode where it pics the best aperture, shutter speed, etc.  It's great for just firing off quick shots where you don't want to miss a moment and you don't want to fiddle with the camera to make sure everything's just right.

This is another picture I took in intelligent auto mode.  The GX1 was small enough for me to carry with me while I was on my motorcycle, which is exactly what I was hoping would be the case.

A great picture by my wife Sue of Sam's dog, Ronin.

Lastly, here are 3 variations of a picture of Ronin:

First this is the untouched photo, just imported into Lightroom straight from the camera

This is the same photo with Trey's Amazing Raisins preset applied within Lightroom

And here's the photo with Photomatix HDR filters applied.

Which variation do you like best?  I'd love to know; just reply to this comment.