Wroxeter Townhouse

Another chance to get out of the house and see stuff and this week even more excitement, (if you can call it that) a new camera to try out. This week we visited Wroxeter Roman City, which is apparently quite big, but in our experience of Roman cities in other countries, this site seems rather small and unimpressive. I suspect the reality is that for the UK and particularly England, this is one of the largest, I say England because the Romans were not too bothered about Scotland or Ireland, but they did mess with the Welsh a bit, so England did seem to be their main target.

This is a view of the town house from the remains of the Roman city. The townhouse was built for the Channel 4 series Rome Wasn't Built in a Day and opened in 2011 and is very striking within all the other buildings and ruins. The site of the remaining parts of the city housed a bath house with just a part of the wall of the baths remaining revealing that I believe is called the hypocaust, where you can see stacks of square bricks that support the floor but also enable the heat of the furnace to circulate below the floor.

As for the new camera, it’s an interesting one. I moved from a DSLR to a Mirrorless camera and there are good points and bad points. I find the viewfinder a bit distracting because it flickers and sometimes the resolution makes the image look pretty poor, which is off putting, but, I they are just artefacts of the screen.I don’t want to use the back screen because that allows for distractions and screens are hard to gauge the colour on in sunlight. The last problem is that I can’t wear my glasses with the screen because the glasses hold the viewfinder off my eye, meaning I can’t see the whole frame.

On the good points, the pictures seem to have come back looking pretty good, and it’s interesting to see close to the final picture before you take the picture which you don’t get with a DSLR. Its early days, so perhaps I’ll find more advantages and disadvantages as I get used to the camera.