[website] Light L16 – The world's first multi-aperture computational camera

[Arthur]

Interesting looking digital camera.

 

Website / Gallery

 

With 16 individual cameras, 10 of them firing simultaneously, the L16 captures the detail of your shot at multiple fixed focal lengths. Then the images are computationally fused to create an incredible high-quality final image with up to 52 megapixel resolution.

 

http://vgy.me/N9caEp.jpg

 

https://vimeo.com/141273851

[Duranis]

Creative way of doing it for sure. Whether it takes off or not though I think is going to depend on price point as it is a very niche product. I think the majority of people now use their smartphones for taking photos. Even though this camera might take much better quality pictures most people will be happy to sacrifice quality for convenience and most people don't want to carry another device around with them all the time and they will always have their phone in their pocket. I have a DSLR for example and a couple of nice compact digital cameras. However 99% of the photos I take are with my phone as they are generally events, holidays, etc where I'm out and about and don't want to be carrying extra stuff with me.

 

For the small number of people that do care about decent quality photos then this camera needs to come in quite a bit cheaper than a digital SLR to compete. Considering it has 16 cameras in it I doubt that is going to happen which puts it function at somewhere between a convenient phone camera and an SLR with a price that is likely to be close to SLR pricing.

 

Does look very cool though.

[CHR1S]

£1000 for a camera that can manage maybe a 10/20% better shot than my phone can and on par with even the cheapest DSLR.

 

At a £150/200 price point this would be amazing.

[Duranis]

I hadn't seen the price tag!!! £1000.... yeah I don't see any market place for this at all. It is a really cool bit of tech but for a grand you can get a decent DSLR and a nice lens or 2 to go with it.