Wandering around Milestones once more, travelling light with my RX100 VII compact camera demonstrating its impressive capabilities in some very low level light conditions typical of most museums, designed to help conserve the colours of many of their precious historical artefacts.

Amazing the quality that can be squeezed out of a 1" sensor camera.

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There has recently been a big resurgence of interest in compact digital cameras just at the point when most of the big makers have got out of the business of making them having made the judgment that the market for them was dead! Those who have kept the faith continue to clean up as a result and the used market is booming for these little beasties as a result as well. As for me I still have and continue to use with much enthusiasm my lovely little Sony RX100 VII, last of their now discontinued compact camera series!

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As with many museums these days Milestones, whilst still delightful, is not what it once was. Time was when it transported us into a world of yesterday, evocative of a bygone era of local industrial heritage and how we used to live. Now it has succumbed to the modern need to provide endless "what's on experiences", to be a place of "child friendly" entertainment, to be big event driven. Heritage watered down, oh dear!

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Fujifilms' X-Trans CMOS sensor produces high quality images with rich colour, tonality and dimensionality using a unique colour filter array that suppresses moiré and false colours without an optical low-pass filter whilst achieving high resolution comparable to 35 mm full size sensors.

Maybe? Well I bought an X-T50 to test the theory.

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