{"id":3003,"date":"2015-10-09T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2015-10-10T23:58:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T06:58:32","slug":"light-l16-a-52-megapixel-computational-camera-for-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/light-l16-a-52-megapixel-computational-camera-for-your-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Light L16, a 52-megapixel computational camera for your pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/light.co\/\">This new beast<\/a> looks really interesting, although I remain skeptical about photographers\u2019 real desire to refocus shots after capture &amp; to pay $1699 for the capability:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Using a new approach to folded optics design, the Light L16 Camera packs DSLR quality into a slim and streamlined camera body. It&#8217;s like having a camera body, zoom, and 3 fast prime lenses right in your pocket. 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/141273968\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"The Light Story\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t be surprised to learn that it&#8217;s generating lots of conversation (e.g. in the <a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2015\/10\/08\/light-l16-is-a-point-and-shoot-that-packs-16-cameras-for-52mp-photos\/\">PetaPixel comments<\/a>). [Update: Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imaging-resource.com\/news\/2015\/04\/27\/light-interview-no-more-full-frame-dslrs-by-2025\">a ton of detail<\/a> about the device.]<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/141273968\">Vimeo<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/15\/10\/the-light-l16-camera\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new beast looks really interesting, although I remain skeptical about photographers\u2019 real desire to refocus shots after capture &amp; to pay $1699 for the capability: Using a new approach to folded optics design, the Light L16 Camera packs DSLR quality into a slim and streamlined camera body. It&#8217;s like having a camera body, zoom, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}