Intrinsically weak magnetic fields are difficult to identify, since flux measurements (magnetograms) cannot by themselves distinguish between filling‐factor and field‐strength effects. The first real determinations of intrinsically weak (less than kG) fields have in fact been made only this year, using the Stokes V profiles of an infrared line pair near 1.56 μm. Many cases of discrete magnetic elements with field strengths as low as 0.4 kG have been found, immediately adjacent (within a couple of arcsec) to the normal strong‐field fluxtubes that have strengths in the range 1.4–1.6 kG and a magnetic polarity that can be both the same or opposite to that of the adjacent magnetic component.There appears to be a continuous sequence of bipolar magnetic regions of various scales, down to the spatial resolution limit, from active regions to ephemeral regions and inner‐network fields. It seems likely that this sequence continues in the form of a subarcsec mixed‐polarity or ‘‘turbulent’’ field that permeates the 9...