Light introduces multi-aperture computational camera

Lori Grunin, who covers digital imaging for CNET, reported Wednesday on Light, the company behind the L16. Of one thing she is certain. "I can say for sure that this will be one of the most interesting cameras to test and shoot with that I've seen in a long while."

The L16 is a camera which is considered as a first by its owners. It is the "first multi-aperture computational camera." You can take quality images with this device, which is small and light to carry around.

The company touts the camera as delivering the highest quality images from the smallest possible device. They said it was like having a camera body, zoom and three fast prime lenses right in your pocket.

"We don't think that on day one everybody drops their DSLR and buys one of these, but we think there's a great population of people that will appreciate the size, cost, and weight reduction," Light CEO Dave Grannan said in MIT Technology Review. (The article noted also that a high-end DSLR camera and equipment may cost thousands.)

The technology used is a combination of "folded optics" with computational imaging algorithms.

"With 16 individual cameras, ten of them firing simultaneously, the L16 captures the details of your shot at multiple fixed focal lengths," said Light. The images are computationally fused to create a final image with up to 52-megapixel resolution.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-10-multi-aperture-camera.html#jCp

Well,that just blew me away!!!