Thomas Rose

Too many trolls on this thread, arguing for the sake of it, preventing or derailing sensible discussion

@Peiasdf:

Troll. Clickbait.

Even if the police officer is to be exonerated the victim should receive financial compensation for his injuries and other suffering. Fact is that the photographer was unarmed and breaking no...

I have no degree in English, but I do have the advantage of having lived longer than the majority of people on this forum, so I have had long enough to read a lot

Both "seriousness" and...

Placed 30^th in the challenge.

Placed 69^th in the challenge. WIllibrord, was the first bishop of Utrecht

Placed 93^rd in the challenge.

Placed 73^rd in the challenge.

That may be how it works "when there is no competition in town".

Fortunately for photographers there is plenty of competition in town!

@EDWARD ARTISTE. You say: "NO ONE believes this (i.e. that...

The best reason for ditching Adobe is that many competing products do a much better job of de-mosaicing and post-processing.

That you can buy a perpetual licence for Adobe's competitors (well,...

Since switching from Adobe to PhotoNinja for de-mosaicing and post processing, and getting hugely better results, I do not see why any photographer would continue to use Adobe's products, other...

Voting with my head, the sensible choice (for Canon, for the kind of photography I do) would be 35 f/2 IS and 85 f/1.4 L IS But voting with my heart I choose the Sigma 50 f/1.4 DG EX (The Art ...

This is what happens when you don't check  carefully before posting. I wrote "often", then thought that "sometimes" was more accurate, but forgot to delete the first thought. And that is not the ...

It has often been said that most cameras are better than the photographers that use them, and my cameras and I are no exception. But even though my old EOS 1Ds ii still does everything I ask of ...

Indeed it is flimsy, noisy, and with unreliable AF. Those handicaps would be tolerable if the lens delivered the optical quality that is claimed for it, but it doesn't. It is never truly sharp in ...

Indeed it is flimsy, noisy, and with unreliable AF.  They would be tolerable if the lens delivered the optical quality that is claimed for it, but it doesn't.  It is never truly sharp in the ...

Placed 9^th in the challenge. Close by Amsterdam Centraal station

Placed 35^th in the challenge. Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 2017

Placed 31^st in the challenge.