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@JM, You fooled everyone by saying a composite was a composite! Nice work on the image.

@Mr Bolton, The 3x ASP was for phones, not the apps. And it was higher revenue for apps, not greater number of apps.

@MrBolton, I'm not sure about the wealthy and all but the aggregate stats clearly indicate iOS generates the lion share of app and service revenue and that is why many third-parties target it first...

@Richard, That's nothing - when the A9 III was announced I had to google "how does a CCD sensor work"...because they predate my technical interest in photography.

@Richard, A 2-second readout time doesn't translate to a need for a mechanical shutter because on CCDs the charge is transferred to holding registers instantaneously, where the readout can occur at...

Here is the first test photo shot with this 3.1 Gigapixel camera:

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-9d5sQgc/0/FFNh6ShLL9c3m76vp4xFDxshLrcGtLPZZmsTPBBPv/O/i-9d5sQgc.jpg

Courtesy of Freepik.com

@Kandid, The author's reference to an overlay was apparently clear enough for Dpreview to accurately describe the submission as "a composite image made from multiple exposures."

@Mike, The contest listed a specific set of rules; mind-reading intent isn't required.

@Donco, Scroll down to the "notes" section:

https://www.dpreview.com/challenges/Entry.aspx?ID=1245531&View=All&Rows=4

@Mike, I can certainly agree with you that we disagree :)

It's still not clear to me why everyone is so puzzled about Dpreview accepting the entry though, or thinking it broke any rule. It was...

Btw, the photographer disclosed all of this in his submission:

"Circular fisheye with moon + corona overlaid where the sun actually was. To accommodate the changing brightness, I bracketed 9 stops...

@MikeRan, All the other submissions used different focal lengths, each of which reproduced the eclipse at various magnifications. So I'll pose the same question - are those made up too? The...

@Mike, If you think combining two focal lengths shot in close temporal proximity in order to work around the resolving limits of the wider focal length represents "made up stuff" then I guess we're...

Clever workaround for cameras' continuing challenges in implementing functional shared workflows, notwithstanding Panasonic's recent addition of in-camera Frame.io support in the S5 II/x. Seems...

The most recent industry stats indicate iOS apps generate 68% of all apps revenue in the smartphone industry.

@MikeRan, I don't see anything in the rules prohibiting compositing. The rules stating it was a photo contest and "not a post-processing contest" is far too nebulous to derive any intent from.

@Mike, Yes, that's well understood and wasn't really the point I was making. See my post above for more clarity on what I meant.

@Barbu, You speak as if he made the eclipse so large as to be comical. If he had rendered it with only the fisheye then it would even be discernible in the frame. Compositing was a technical...

How big of a wrench do you own?

"It is my least favourite, as it is obviously phoney. The moon/sun are shown very much larger than in reality."

I guess all the entries taken with a zoom lens should be disqualified as well?