thanks interesting perspective.
Increasing picture quality comes with increasing work, but I love that and the RX1 would be, and is, my choice.
The Ricoh looks amazing value for money though, very nice pictures, and the Nikon is surprising good, although it does start to have the "compact" massive DOF feel
Also interesting discussion on "street photography"
I am also very uncomfortable with the definitions here.
it is interesting seeing different people's moods out in the open, but it is not the photography style of choice for me
My "street" is more using the environment and the people to play off each other, thus conveying to the the viewer the feeling I had at the time I took the picture. That feeling may not be to everyone's taste, but that's fine.
For example this is a picture I rejected for showing, just because I felt it was too "head on", although is does convey the mood of the scene quite well:
Whereas this was much less intrusive. I liked the "sinister mood" I felt as I viewed the scene, also the woman's expression tied into that.
However the differences are just important to me, and its just IMHO