He’s not “apologising” for anything here. Physics and a rudimentary understanding of computational photography should be triggering sceptical responses like thi

He’s not “apologising” for anything here. Physics and a rudimentary understanding of computational photography should be triggering sceptical responses like this. As someone who has been taking photos using analogue and digital SLRs for over 35 years, while playing with exposing and editing photos using analogue and digital tools, this image definitely looks suspect. It is too sharp and too posed. You’ve been banging the freedom and choice drum on the original thread, and while I don’t necessarily disagree with some of the points you made there, his scepticism jibes with your hot take and I think it would be fair to describe you as anti-Apple, so there’s that. Based on what we know about Apple, physics and ML as applied to photography, the likelihood is that this is a staged photo. I’m more surprised that petapixel didn’t do a more thoughtful evaluation rather than perpetuating the story.