Even if they did, comments are personal so a glowing set of comments in the gallery may bear no sway with a judge who dislikes the offering, and of course vice versa.

Thanks Yves. The only sharpening has been applied by the software while reducing the images to 1000 pix for the forum in Irfanview. I've not specifically done that. I'm even surprised they're sharp at all as both 1 & 2 are cropped (whereas 3 has just been trimmed top and bottom.) I took several of each image and chose the sharpest, some of the others were very 'unsharp!'
While processing #2 it was difficult to prevent it looking like a nuclear explosion had taken place (well I appreciate it was the result of a nuclear explosion, but not the one 93 million miles away.)

Three from today with the MX-1.

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It maybe a good idea for some while it's available. But all to often this type of service vanishes so what happens to one's precious memories then? Lost in space come to mind.

I'll second that. One could pay four times that amount for one.

My Samsung phone had it turned on by default, I had to turn it off immediately as it wouldn't let me type my web site url. I'd type the url and it changed it to something else before my very eyes! It was utterly useless. It can reverse the meaning of what was intended in a message if the typing isn't proofed before being submitted, but those who use it don't seem to bother doing that.
As to pokey phone screens, I agree, so use a PC or Mac instead.
You'll gather I'm not enamoured with mobile phones! (I was nearly mown down on my cycle by someone texting while supposed to be driving and presumably looking where they were going, but weren't, a couple of years ago.) Since then cannot cycle on a main road though might use the pavement or off road route only. I wish the things could be uninvented! There are far too many accidents / deaths caused by them.

Typing something other than what you mean is helpful? Strange!

PentaxForums show the average price to be around $390, so Ffordes' price may not be over the top.

Why do people always blame their phones? It's easy to remedy, switch off predictive text. It's quicker to type what you mean without it! It doesn't let you type some letter combinations meaning entering some web addresses can be off limits.

When did Ricoh/Pentax take over Apple? Hadn't heard that merger.