Performance is too sluggish for anything but slow photography
Desktop software is a chore
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The Light L16 camera is an engineering marvel. It takes 16 different smartphone-sized imaging modules, each carefully aligned behind a piece of glass, and uses them in concert with each other to create images that are bigger and better-looking than the...
Well, Light’s latest L16 camera offers exactly that: with a grand total of 16 cameras and the capacity to capture 52-megapixel stills. Trypophobics look away: here’s absolutely everything you need to know about the Light L16, including UK release date,...
Last year, almost every smartphone that wanted to be noticed sported a fancy dual camera; two lenses used to emulate the depth of field and optical zoom capabilities usually reserved for full-fat DSLRs. Now, Silicon Valley startup Light has turned the...
It's quite refreshing to see something which totally diverges from the usual crop of cameras we come across. The level of detail the L16 captures is remarkable, but leaving a big chunk of photo-taking creativity to software algorithms feels a bit...
Despite that, and it's weird bug-eyed appearance, the Light L16 is an exciting development in an area of technology that isn't usually the most dynamic or fast moving. I'm not convinced yet it's quite good enough to replace your smartphone but that...
A rather unique device, the Light L16 is a smartphone-esque camera that utilizes sixteen 13-megapixel camera + lens modules with three different focal lengths, and a lot of sophisticated software to computationally combine 10 or more simultaneously...
The very first time I laid eyes on the Light L16 camera, I knew I had to test it. 16 individual 13MP sensors ranging from 28mm to 150mm, laid out in a scattershot pattern without even the pretense of adhering to a grid, festooned with steerable mirrors...
Light propose un boîtier au concept à la fois hors-norme et un peu fou: faire travailler ensemble 16 modules photographiques de smartphone pour produire une image de qualité, promettant pour un prix contenu une résolution moyen format, un contrôle de...
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