RX100 vii

So, I’ve spent a little more time with the RX100 this weekend, and I like it better than I did.

Sunday at church was a little too busy to do too much with it, but I did grab a couple of shots in the church to see what it was like. It has a very nice reach (200mm equivalent), but even with our new church lighting it’s still kinda noisy:

But as you can see above, with some AI magic from Lightroom it’s quite a usable shot.

And this shot from the same spot (not cropped in) shows how nice it is to have the reach (and the image stabilization)!

And this lunchtime it was finally a little brighter out, so I took it to the woods to take a few shots of the emerging flora:

It is very nice to have a proper lens that opens up to a decent (f/2.8) aperture to get some nice shallow depth of field so that you can isolate your subject a bit- you can’t really do that with a phone camera unless you fake it (though I do hear the camera on the Pixel 9 Pro can do it for real).

I have it for another couple of days, so we’ll see if it grows on me any more (though I still think the lack of weather/dust sealing is a dealbreaker)- it’s a shame you can’t rent cell phones for a week or so to try them out before you have to drop all that money on them!