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I worked for this company testing image quality, hardware and fw in the lab and field. At the time it was awesome to be developing such a future forward camera. I called the front the camera the spider eye. When focusing on a subject all the in use mirrors would shift giving a sort of spider looking at you effect. Most people found it to be very creepy but the idea of the camera at least with the people I talked to thought it was a great idea. Just a shame the firmware and functionality wasn't as reliable. When it works, it's amazing! It's like being teleported to another dimension and having 3 lenses and working camera is a dream. Aaaaand then the dream is over and reality sets back in.
Thanks, I did the same. As for the multiple lenses, it allows for a) building resolution b) after the image depth of field decision making. In many ways it was designed to to be the ultimate post production camera. Everything was variable after the fact. Really it was a genius design, that was like a Jaguar, brilliant when they run.
I have one of these - mine works, but with a ton of caveats. The batteries basically die in these things if they're not kept charged up, and require days of charging or various tricks with refrigerators to get them revived. I have an older apple mac on hand that runs Lumen, I don't think it runs on modern macs. The image quality is "interesting" at best - with different resolution depending on where in the image you look at. There is a newer fan-made firmware for these - I think it's supposed to enable video recording, although I've never tried that. There is a fairly active facebook enthusiast group for these.
bad software and unreplaceable batteries ruining potentially usable hardware???? they really were ahead of their time 😂😂😭😭 or they just hired the same kind of people who made those decisions for every other tech company on the planet
I really liked the idea of this but i think it was well ahead of it's time. Better processors in phones now combined with better ai/computational photography abilities, alongside newer, better quality and slightly larger sensors.
@@raulal00 I don't think he copied because there's no way he could get this camera within 2 days and make an entire video about it plus go on a hiking trip before editing the video and posting it
RUclipsrs can have one or more videos finished or partially finished and are just hanging on to it till the right moment comes. Other times it's as simple as people knowing each other and sharing reviewed items to cut costs.
i noticed that in the b-roll, the camera appears to be running the not-latest firmware, which in my experience with a new camera works fine and none of the bugs and improved image quality somewhat… a lot of other people in the L16 discord have experienced DoA units like your first one, though.
I gotta say, as an IT architect and career tech ultra-nerd, that OS experience is pretty much universally my experience with every single Android device that either isn’t a flagship from Samsung or Google itself (and even them when they stop getting Android OS updates and start to run into compatibility issues with apps), or has had ANY kind of proprietary feature that needs a unique app. The “wanted to dropkick” it line is exactly why I’ve been running iphones as my daily drivers since 2008. But we aren’t talking phones here, so my point is that any niche device running Android is bound to end up with that crashy, clunky, broken user experience & functionality eventually. So I’d blame a lot of the issues you had on its OS specifically.
I’m sorry for your poor experience with the L16 Tom. I have one myself, and I actually unironically like using it as a “palette cleanser”, or even my everyday commute carry. Lumen works for me (On PC, because Lumen doesn’t work on Apple Silicon), and I love playing with the “Aperture” dials. It’s super freaky.
It is unfortunate to hear you had so many problems with your L16. Mine is completely functional and does not give me any faults (from ebay also). The final images are nothing impressive with washed out colors and the "selective focus" in post-production working only sometimes. I love the design and wish the company continued to support this camera with updates. The android platform could have had a lot of potential for this camera. I am planning to do a review of my own in my sub channels. Great video!
Oh god, the design tickles my "eww..." part of my brain. Maybe if they arranged it better, the sales would be better. Anyway, this phone is the archetype of "future" phone that has bizarre number of lens.
Hey Tom, I was a little disappointed when you announced that you won't be doing gear comparison/test/review anymore earlier this year because you were simply the best at it. But now I really enjoy your content, and I hope you enjoy doing it as well. Cheers.
Hey bud. I didn't say I was going to stop, just that I wanted to cut down and do some other stuff too, which I'm working on 😁 Great to hear you like the content though!
Well, I bought Light Camera 2 or 3 months ago, having tried to buy one in 2016 and having (luckily) decided to not go further just a second before the payment...In that moment I was looking for a camera with a huge resolution and with everything I needed (glasses) under 2000 euro. And that seemed to me Light 16 camera. No, it was not, but as mine is working, I can, if you want, send you a couple of raw files, just to understand what is the quality of the images. Because in your review you've been talking about your bad experience with a camera that has not any assistance nowadays, but I think the real problem is the quality of the images, even when the camera (like in my case) is working properly. Let me know. PS Did you try to upload the firmware back in the camera? It is still available through FB groups of fans.
A friend paid 2K for that brand new back in 2018 which was the same cost of the Sony A73 at the time. I ridiculed him at the time about it. He used it for a year then put it in a box and went back to his D7100. Total regret. I think they retail for $200 on amazon now. apparently, one of the biggest issues was all the separate cameras did not appropriately stitch up the images so you had overlapping layers and lines that did not align. honestly, I thought this would be the future for cell phone technology, but I guess not. It’s all dead now.
I Love the L-16 - Its impractical, bulky, and the images need processing and are not even super great mostly - but I have had alot of fun with it and enjoy peoples reactions when im out and about - most of them never even knew it existed so they think its so fascinating - also the massive images it can take can lead to some "Golden Shots" that I still keep in my portfolio with shots taken by cameras 6x more capable. - also mine has very few issues aside from showing up in the software sometimes - it still shows up in file explorer so i usually just pop the files out of that directly
I bought this camera a while back for fun. The software is crap and the image quality is worse than most smartphone cameras from a few years ago, but the attention it gets when you take it out is golden.
Ridiculing products that people made in order to try to push technology forward is not a nice thing to do. They invested, tried, had a vision, it simply did not turn out to be a good product. It's not a point to continuously mock it for 13 minutes without telling any good things about it. Actually, it's a very visionary prototype not for the faith of hearth.
It was my dream camera when it first came out, such a great and revolutionary product, especially for its time, tho Light didnt optimise it enough, and didnt give it a second chanse, as for all their products
Idk why you kept having issues with it, I bought mine 3 weeks ago on Amazon, works perfectly, and pictures look amazing , the detail is good, sharp, the only thing I’ll say is, I’m having a hard time updating it and also the sensors are sensitive because you can’t grab it without setting them off, and also wish it had more options and settings, This camera has so much potential, and all they needed to do is fix the software and continue doing updates and I could assure you this would’ve been a camera to have, but they fumbled the bag. Hope they revive it in the future when this technology becomes cheaper and more efficient.
One of the things that bothers me with the current smartphone market is how formulaic it all is. Fragile folding nonsense aside it's all basically the same crap, just a smidgen more on the specs sheet each year. If you want a small smartphone-esque pocket camera, they should really have developed something like the galaxy zoom. Imagine they had that today with the extra body size people now accept on a phone, and all the advancement in processing and computational photography. It would be a fully operational smart phone with a slightly chunky optical zoom lens and one big sensor. I'm sure it could kick the ass of all 'normal' phone cameras, and give the rest of the camera industry a real run for its money.
10:40 "good." Might be well off base but based on the data available, it seems to me Tom does not actually think this is "good". Could be wrong tho, who knows?
the raw file is a proprietary one, that you have to use its own software to develop ;) you can find the software and sample raws online if you want to play with it ;)
I was gonna make fun of you for the shipping stuff at 7:00 but as a Mexican, for some reason, an Amazon purchase from canada arrived in 3 days and a local purchase also thru amazon took a bit over 2 weeks XD so that's that
Hi l have a question I need a new camera and I'm trying to decide between the Sony a6700 and the Fujifilm X-H2 I seriously love the Fujifilm look, quality and everything about that camera my only concern is the auto focus l'm seeing so many bad things about it I saw a video saying it's worse than my current a6000 I'm fine with changing my ecosystem because currently I only have the two kit lenses and I'm gonna buy new lenses if I get the a6700 too so it's fine with me switching to Fujifilm I do about 60 to 70% photography and 30 to 40% Videography My work is semi professional for photography I do Wildlife, Landscape, Portrait, Everyday Street Photography, Astrophotography, Macro, Plants And want to try Plane Spotting and Car Photography then for videography i will be doing Commercials, Short Films, Trailers, concert videography, Vlogging, Social Media also none of this is fully professional client work This is more like a semi professional type of thing. I love both of these cameras, but I really want the Fujifilm I don't care as long as it's reliable autofocus as long as it can match my A6000 specially in video subject tracking I'm fine I'll deal with it because I love everything else about that camera too much but if the autofocus is worse than the a6000 then I'll have to go to my second option the a6700 which is fine cause I love that camera too, and I seriously love the auto framing in video but still the quality and the Fujifilm look 😭
Are you sure this isn't a government phone? It sounds like the $7.5 billion program approved in 2021 to build and install EV chargers in the US. I think there are 6 installed (3 of which are broken).
I literally said "What the F*** is that?!" at the same time as your sound byte! hahaha. I don't suppose an OS reinstall would help it? Would like to see you get at least 1 picture out of it. Don't give up yet this is a quest!
That camera seems to be running on android os 😂 could be another rabbit R1 scandal. How can these companies keep getting away with making a "new product" that is just a glitchy android app
That's probably a copy with bad software. My lightly used copy have never given me such nightmare. The hardest thing to do with this camera is finding the firmware update as there are plenty of other Light L16 search hits so much so that my eBay seller actually queried me months later if I know where or have found the firmware and can I share the link
It's also what inspired the Nokia 9 Pureview. Although the concept is similar to the Google's and ultimately smartphone industry's RAW stacking technology, it's still pretty cool had the concept been properly done in at least 3 years. But Nokia is dead. HMD doesn't want to deal with them anymore.
So I do know someone who worked on this and I remember people being very excited about it. I don’t know if that person will be happy and angry on seeing this 😂
they did a collab with HMD Global and released a Nokia android phone with the same tech - which also failed I have one - it takes really good photos but is not reliable.
Hooold up! How long are/were you in Calgary for?? I've been watching your videos for years, and I nearly dropped my phone when you name dropped my hometown.
when I saw the short I thought this would be a two year old video with how much coverage this camera already had, so I really don't understand why one would even make another video if you can't even get a working model... still played the entire video though cause I ain't wanna tank the watchtime
Hey @TomCalton, happy to lend you my copy if you’re interested. Works well, takes interesting shots and is part of my collection of odd hardware (Currently sitting next to my DxO Mark One). It was ingenious for its time, definitely quirky and had unfulfilled potential, but I do still take it along on occasion just to remind myself how far we’ve come in photography
Funny, I had seen this thing somewhere and it was in the back of my mind as probably something really great. Interesting to see it again and to learn it has been a complete mess.
Just by the look of it you can see it`s a flop. Can you imagine anyone buying something as scary as this. I can`t. Its the most scary thing i ever saw. Stuff for nightmares.
Ptom I am sorry I skipped over this video. This device has multiple videos about it fundamentally not working. But I will still grant you the watch time by playing it in the background.
I got one under AUD 200 sealed and working. Look, it's pretty shit in most circumstances but I refuse to hate it. Yes I also have a stupid Lytro Illum and I refuse to hate it. I have a fetish for ridiculous barely functional cameras and those two companies fluffed me to good health. Find more stupid cameras for me to love.
In the time it took Light to get to market, Huawei beat them to releasing the first multicamera computational photography device with the P9 (2016), whose pictures were stitched together from twinned dual main cameras. By the time the Light 16 Project had folded and Light licensed out its computational tech to Nokia for the 9 Pureview, Huawei had triple camera systems doing blended output. Granted, they weren't quite DSLR quality, but they were close before Trump sanctioned them back to the stone age
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This camera has peak "at this rate phones in 2050 will have seventeen lenses lol" energy but even worse
Like same with the iPhone getting taller jokes after the iPhone 5. But in this case, people took the camera joke seriously 💀
Biblically accurate camera
This is an underrated comment.
I'm not going to bother commenting. This was the best.
lololol
I saw this comment on the short of this video
lol
I worked for this company testing image quality, hardware and fw in the lab and field. At the time it was awesome to be developing such a future forward camera. I called the front the camera the spider eye. When focusing on a subject all the in use mirrors would shift giving a sort of spider looking at you effect. Most people found it to be very creepy but the idea of the camera at least with the people I talked to thought it was a great idea. Just a shame the firmware and functionality wasn't as reliable. When it works, it's amazing! It's like being teleported to another dimension and having 3 lenses and working camera is a dream. Aaaaand then the dream is over and reality sets back in.
But why not just 3 lenses? What’s the benefit of having more? Stereoscopy?
So the idea was to have depth of field/bokeh using computational on the scattered sensors?
Thanks, I did the same. As for the multiple lenses, it allows for a) building resolution b) after the image depth of field decision making.
In many ways it was designed to to be the ultimate post production camera. Everything was variable after the fact. Really it was a genius design, that was like a Jaguar, brilliant when they run.
I have one of these - mine works, but with a ton of caveats. The batteries basically die in these things if they're not kept charged up, and require days of charging or various tricks with refrigerators to get them revived. I have an older apple mac on hand that runs Lumen, I don't think it runs on modern macs. The image quality is "interesting" at best - with different resolution depending on where in the image you look at. There is a newer fan-made firmware for these - I think it's supposed to enable video recording, although I've never tried that. There is a fairly active facebook enthusiast group for these.
Lumen works on Windows 11 too, on mine anyway.
bad software and unreplaceable batteries ruining potentially usable hardware????
they really were ahead of their time 😂😂😭😭 or they just hired the same kind of people who made those decisions for every other tech company on the planet
It was ambitious, I'll give em that much. But absolutely riddled with issues 😅
Trypophobia
I agree lol 😅😅
@@luisparra5075 Was about to comment the same thing.
Me too😑
How did you make your comment linkable?
Trypophotography
Hi Tom, it was nice running into you on the trail while you were testing this camera. Thanks for all the great content!
Hey! Likewise! Thanks again for saying hello! Hope you enjoyed your trip to Calgary 😊
I really liked the idea of this but i think it was well ahead of it's time. Better processors in phones now combined with better ai/computational photography abilities, alongside newer, better quality and slightly larger sensors.
crazy how two different channels reviewed this of all cameras within two days of each other
what was the other channel
@@DadeWilliams DavisMakesGames
Trends.... the know others, copy content...
@@raulal00 I don't think he copied because there's no way he could get this camera within 2 days and make an entire video about it plus go on a hiking trip before editing the video and posting it
RUclipsrs can have one or more videos finished or partially finished and are just hanging on to it till the right moment comes. Other times it's as simple as people knowing each other and sharing reviewed items to cut costs.
Dude! I think I had an anxiety attack just listing to the story! I have had some RUclips fails before, but this is a whole new level!
Honestly mate, it was a total nightmare! I wasn't joking about being close to throwing it down the mountain 🤣
i noticed that in the b-roll, the camera appears to be running the not-latest firmware, which in my experience with a new camera works fine and none of the bugs and improved image quality somewhat… a lot of other people in the L16 discord have experienced DoA units like your first one, though.
yeah mine works just fine, even run instagram on it too ;)
I gotta say, as an IT architect and career tech ultra-nerd, that OS experience is pretty much universally my experience with every single Android device that either isn’t a flagship from Samsung or Google itself (and even them when they stop getting Android OS updates and start to run into compatibility issues with apps), or has had ANY kind of proprietary feature that needs a unique app.
The “wanted to dropkick” it line is exactly why I’ve been running iphones as my daily drivers since 2008. But we aren’t talking phones here, so my point is that any niche device running Android is bound to end up with that crashy, clunky, broken user experience & functionality eventually. So I’d blame a lot of the issues you had on its OS specifically.
"fear not" AHH camera
I’m sorry for your poor experience with the L16 Tom. I have one myself, and I actually unironically like using it as a “palette cleanser”, or even my everyday commute carry.
Lumen works for me (On PC, because Lumen doesn’t work on Apple Silicon), and I love playing with the “Aperture” dials. It’s super freaky.
It is unfortunate to hear you had so many problems with your L16. Mine is completely functional and does not give me any faults (from ebay also). The final images are nothing impressive with washed out colors and the "selective focus" in post-production working only sometimes. I love the design and wish the company continued to support this camera with updates. The android platform could have had a lot of potential for this camera. I am planning to do a review of my own in my sub channels. Great video!
Anything that advertised as a replacement of something flops miserable.
Oh god, the design tickles my "eww..." part of my brain. Maybe if they arranged it better, the sales would be better. Anyway, this phone is the archetype of "future" phone that has bizarre number of lens.
No. This is never going to catch on.
It does not take good pictures because the subjects normally end up vomiting by looking into it, including my sofa.
Promised to be a DSLR killer, ended up being a patience killer. So brave to try it, Tom
I think Light also collaborated with HMD on the 5 camera array design of the Nokia 9 Pureview.
Hey Tom, I was a little disappointed when you announced that you won't be doing gear comparison/test/review anymore earlier this year because you were simply the best at it. But now I really enjoy your content, and I hope you enjoy doing it as well. Cheers.
Hey bud. I didn't say I was going to stop, just that I wanted to cut down and do some other stuff too, which I'm working on 😁 Great to hear you like the content though!
Well, I bought Light Camera 2 or 3 months ago, having tried to buy one in 2016 and having (luckily) decided to not go further just a second before the payment...In that moment I was looking for a camera with a huge resolution and with everything I needed (glasses) under 2000 euro. And that seemed to me Light 16 camera. No, it was not, but as mine is working, I can, if you want, send you a couple of raw files, just to understand what is the quality of the images. Because in your review you've been talking about your bad experience with a camera that has not any assistance nowadays, but I think the real problem is the quality of the images, even when the camera (like in my case) is working properly. Let me know. PS Did you try to upload the firmware back in the camera? It is still available through FB groups of fans.
A friend paid 2K for that brand new back in 2018 which was the same cost of the Sony A73 at the time. I ridiculed him at the time about it. He used it for a year then put it in a box and went back to his D7100. Total regret. I think they retail for $200 on amazon now.
apparently, one of the biggest issues was all the separate cameras did not appropriately stitch up the images so you had overlapping layers and lines that did not align.
honestly, I thought this would be the future for cell phone technology, but I guess not. It’s all dead now.
I Love the L-16 - Its impractical, bulky, and the images need processing and are not even super great mostly - but I have had alot of fun with it and enjoy peoples reactions when im out and about - most of them never even knew it existed so they think its so fascinating - also the massive images it can take can lead to some "Golden Shots" that I still keep in my portfolio with shots taken by cameras 6x more capable. - also mine has very few issues aside from showing up in the software sometimes - it still shows up in file explorer so i usually just pop the files out of that directly
i laughed when Tom air quoted "work" at 12.27
I bought this camera a while back for fun. The software is crap and the image quality is worse than most smartphone cameras from a few years ago, but the attention it gets when you take it out is golden.
Looks like spider eyes
Now multi-cameras are very common in smartphones. They were just ahead of their time and didn't have the right software.
Weird i have an L16 and i have never had an issue and i get decent photos with it.
Oh, we got so many sensors, your fingers will be in the way! Let’s add MORE sensors!
Ridiculing products that people made in order to try to push technology forward is not a nice thing to do. They invested, tried, had a vision, it simply did not turn out to be a good product. It's not a point to continuously mock it for 13 minutes without telling any good things about it. Actually, it's a very visionary prototype not for the faith of hearth.
Love the new colors for the background!
Thanks! ☺️
Isn't computation photography what Samsung, Apple and Google phone are doing?
Absolutely. They were bleeding edge.
It was my dream camera when it first came out, such a great and revolutionary product, especially for its time, tho Light didnt optimise it enough, and didnt give it a second chanse, as for all their products
Idk why you kept having issues with it, I bought mine 3 weeks ago on Amazon, works perfectly, and pictures look amazing , the detail is good, sharp, the only thing I’ll say is, I’m having a hard time updating it and also the sensors are sensitive because you can’t grab it without setting them off, and also wish it had more options and settings, This camera has so much potential, and all they needed to do is fix the software and continue doing updates and I could assure you this would’ve been a camera to have, but they fumbled the bag. Hope they revive it in the future when this technology becomes cheaper and more efficient.
One of the things that bothers me with the current smartphone market is how formulaic it all is. Fragile folding nonsense aside it's all basically the same crap, just a smidgen more on the specs sheet each year.
If you want a small smartphone-esque pocket camera, they should really have developed something like the galaxy zoom. Imagine they had that today with the extra body size people now accept on a phone, and all the advancement in processing and computational photography. It would be a fully operational smart phone with a slightly chunky optical zoom lens and one big sensor. I'm sure it could kick the ass of all 'normal' phone cameras, and give the rest of the camera industry a real run for its money.
10:40 "good." Might be well off base but based on the data available, it seems to me Tom does not actually think this is "good". Could be wrong tho, who knows?
Can you share those RAW files? Would like to see whats in them and whether it is recoverable
the raw file is a proprietary one, that you have to use its own software to develop ;) you can find the software and sample raws online if you want to play with it ;)
I remember this phone full of bullet holes.. never arrived here in the Philippines! i've seen that in the news few years ago..huge fail tho!!
I remember the fundraiser for that thing. Happily it was way out my price range.
Wake up babe new trypophobia phone just dropped
I still have one! Loved the conversations this would generate. The software of this was a mess.
I was gonna make fun of you for the shipping stuff at 7:00 but as a Mexican, for some reason, an Amazon purchase from canada arrived in 3 days and a local purchase also thru amazon took a bit over 2 weeks XD so that's that
Hi l have a question I need a new camera and I'm trying to decide between the Sony a6700 and the Fujifilm X-H2 I seriously love the Fujifilm look, quality and everything about that camera my only concern is the auto focus l'm seeing so many bad things about it I saw a video saying it's worse than my current a6000 I'm fine with changing my ecosystem because currently I only have the two kit lenses and I'm gonna buy new lenses if I get the a6700 too so it's fine with me switching to Fujifilm I do about 60 to 70% photography and 30 to 40% Videography My work is semi professional for photography I do Wildlife, Landscape, Portrait, Everyday Street Photography, Astrophotography, Macro, Plants And want to try Plane Spotting and Car Photography then for videography i will be doing Commercials, Short Films, Trailers, concert videography, Vlogging, Social Media also none of this is fully professional client work This is more like a semi professional type of thing. I love both of these cameras, but I really want the Fujifilm I don't care as long as it's reliable autofocus as long as it can match my A6000 specially in video subject tracking I'm fine I'll deal with it because I love everything else about that camera too much but if the autofocus is worse than the a6000 then I'll have to go to my second option the a6700 which is fine cause I love that camera too, and I seriously love the auto framing in video but still the quality and the Fujifilm look 😭
Are you sure this isn't a government phone? It sounds like the $7.5 billion program approved in 2021 to build and install EV chargers in the US. I think there are 6 installed (3 of which are broken).
Seriously. F this camera.
mine works just fine, its an alright camera, i bought a copy cause i was intrigued the day it was announced and you can own one for cheap now ;)
The mother of all multicam smartphones. It was a awesome idea at this time. The stitching software was the basic of all 360 cams. 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Dude I have one of those, and use it a lot. It takes great photos.
👏the intro alone got me to subscribe, nailed it! 😂
I literally said "What the F*** is that?!" at the same time as your sound byte! hahaha. I don't suppose an OS reinstall would help it? Would like to see you get at least 1 picture out of it. Don't give up yet this is a quest!
Although the implementation failed, the concept still looks viable if done properly
That camera seems to be running on android os 😂 could be another rabbit R1 scandal. How can these companies keep getting away with making a "new product" that is just a glitchy android app
intro was diabolical lmao
I bought one a couple of years ago for $150. I enjoyed the novelty and have taken a couple of pretty good images.
But does it shoot like film though?
That's probably a copy with bad software. My lightly used copy have never given me such nightmare. The hardest thing to do with this camera is finding the firmware update as there are plenty of other Light L16 search hits so much so that my eBay seller actually queried me months later if I know where or have found the firmware and can I share the link
This one is a modern art
i actually remember people being excited about this thing few years back
never invest into something that "replaces" something actually good, or a device that has to fake what a real camera does
I remember when people where hyper marketing this camera like it is the next big thing. Then they are now bashing it now.
It's also what inspired the Nokia 9 Pureview. Although the concept is similar to the Google's and ultimately smartphone industry's RAW stacking technology, it's still pretty cool had the concept been properly done in at least 3 years. But Nokia is dead. HMD doesn't want to deal with them anymore.
So I do know someone who worked on this and I remember people being very excited about it. I don’t know if that person will be happy and angry on seeing this 😂
they did a collab with HMD Global and released a Nokia android phone with the same tech - which also failed I have one - it takes really good photos but is not reliable.
basically the iphone 47
camera man: ok look at the camera and smile!
Model: where???
Hooold up! How long are/were you in Calgary for??
I've been watching your videos for years, and I nearly dropped my phone when you name dropped my hometown.
when I saw the short I thought this would be a two year old video with how much coverage this camera already had, so I really don't understand why one would even make another video if you can't even get a working model... still played the entire video though cause I ain't wanna tank the watchtime
Hey @TomCalton, happy to lend you my copy if you’re interested. Works well, takes interesting shots and is part of my collection of odd hardware (Currently sitting next to my DxO Mark One). It was ingenious for its time, definitely quirky and had unfulfilled potential, but I do still take it along on occasion just to remind myself how far we’ve come in photography
Still expensive for what it is to day on ebay, and yet worth nothing also. Cool cocept gadget.
That camera is truly a mess!
Mate you’ve gotta drop kick it. What a short that would make!
someone should get an AI to develop a full fledged firmware, so we can actually use this camera
Phone cameras in 2030 be like
Computational images but RAW files? That's the exact opposite
All the smartphone shoots like that, you never get the real raw from them
This was the future of cameras
태어나서 지금까지 본 모든 카메라 중에 제일 끔찍하게 생겼음 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
That's an interesting piece of hardware
Funny, I had seen this thing somewhere and it was in the back of my mind as probably something really great. Interesting to see it again and to learn it has been a complete mess.
can you try fujifilm xm5
Just by the look of it you can see it`s a flop.
Can you imagine anyone buying something as scary as this.
I can`t. Its the most scary thing i ever saw. Stuff for nightmares.
The Light went out for this, ... this thing!
Ptom I am sorry I skipped over this video. This device has multiple videos about it fundamentally not working. But I will still grant you the watch time by playing it in the background.
Wow, it's really reviewed, like it first and then look at it
Time to buy a 3rd copy... Just in case 😅
2000k!?!?
This still isn't a bad idea in general
You look like a thin, young Keir Starmer.
LOL the intro man.
Dude my s23ultra can frow out 50mp hdr raw files and has a 230mm optical zoom
camera usuers 🤔
smartphone usuers 🤔
customer 😢
Unluckiest person in the world😅😅😅
The Dick Fosbury of cameras
I got one under AUD 200 sealed and working. Look, it's pretty shit in most circumstances but I refuse to hate it. Yes I also have a stupid Lytro Illum and I refuse to hate it. I have a fetish for ridiculous barely functional cameras and those two companies fluffed me to good health. Find more stupid cameras for me to love.
Nobody is forcing you to do this.
In the time it took Light to get to market, Huawei beat them to releasing the first multicamera computational photography device with the P9 (2016), whose pictures were stitched together from twinned dual main cameras.
By the time the Light 16 Project had folded and Light licensed out its computational tech to Nokia for the 9 Pureview, Huawei had triple camera systems doing blended output. Granted, they weren't quite DSLR quality, but they were close before Trump sanctioned them back to the stone age
crazy yap session tbh
Yes
looks like jaw that has a lot of impacted tooth