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Light L16 - 4K Multi-Lense 52MP Pocket-Sized DSLR-Quality Camera with Built-in Wifi, Touchscreen, Software Updated Built-in 256GB Storage (New)

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Features

  • On-Camera Editing and this compact camera captures the details of your scene at multiple focal lengths, then uses sophisticated algorithms to combine 10+ images into a single, high-resolution photo.
  • Light's advanced image-processing engine captures 51.1 megapixels of rich data, creating high-quality images with striking details, realistic colors, and significantly less noise. Photographers have the creative freedom they need to zoom, crop, enlarge, and ultimately bring their vision to life.
  • 3 stops of dynamic range and unlike most cameras, the L16 captures multiple images at different exposure values. When combined, final photos boast an impressively wide dynamic rangearound 13 stops.
  • Weighing just less than a pound, the L16 offers convenience without sacrificing quality. Now, photographers can take professional-quality photos wherever they go.
  • Built-in Wifi, On screen editing, Bluetooth, Software Updates, 52 Megapixels, 16 Lenses, Optimized Low Light Capability, etc. The Light L16 has so much to offer!

Description

Brand New Sealed Light L16 Multi-Lense 52MP Digital Camera HD Photography The L16 Camera is about the size of a large smartphone and with sixteen individual 13MP cameras on its body, ten of which fire simultaneously, it is able to capture high-resolution images up to 52 megapixels. According to the folks at Light, a start-up company, “The Light L16 Camera is the first multi-aperture computational camera. The L16 makes it easy for anyone to take DSLR-quality images, and is small and light enough to fit in your pocket. Light’s technology combines folded optics with sophisticated computational imaging algorithms to deliver the highest quality images from the smallest possible device. The camera features sixteen lenses and one IR sensor in a seemingly random array that looks like bubbles floating across its front face. The lenses are grouped into three focal lengths: five 35mm lenses, five 70mm lenses and six 150mm lenses. This offers an effective optical zoom range of 35-150mm. When shooting at one of the three focal lengths, the camera takes several images and computationally blends them into one high resolution image. The camera’s computation algorithm also provides effective low-light imaging with minimal noise and, most importantly, enables focus and depth of field to be adjusted after the picture has been taken. Physically, the camera has a compact and Spartan design with a healthy hand grip and a 5” touchscreen LCD for composition and playback (no viewfinder) as well as settings navigation. It is water and dust-resistant, has a built-in flash, and a rechargeable battery good for 400 shots. Its top plate offers just the power and shutter buttons. THERE IS NO CAMERA AVAILABLE LIKE THE LIGHT L16 CAMERA.

Compatible Mountings: Canon EF, Canon EF-S


Aspect Ratio: 169


Photo Sensor Technology: CMOS


Supported File Format: JPEG


Image Stabilization: Digital, Dynamic, Optical


Maximum Focal Length: 70 Millimeters


Optical Zoom: 4.28 x


Maximum Aperture: 12.5 Millimeters


Expanded ISO Minimum: 100


Metering Description: Evaluative


Compatible Mountings: Canon EF, Canon EF-S


Aspect Ratio: 169


Sensor Type: CMOS


File Format: JPEG


Image stabilization: Digital, Dynamic, Optical


Maximum Aperture: 12.5 Millimeters


Expanded ISO Minimum: 100


Photo Sensor Resolution: 52 MP


Photo Sensor Size: Full Frame (35mm)


Maximum Shutter Speed: 5 seconds


Minimum Shutter Speed: 1/5 seconds


Exposure Control: Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority


Form Factor: Compact


Effective Still Resolution: 52 MP


Special Feature: Wireless


Color: Black


Screen Size: 5 Inches


Shooting Modes: Shutter Priority


Item Weight: 1.01 Kilograms


Video Resolution: 2160p


Viewfinder: Optical


Flash Modes: Auto, On, Off


Camera Flash: Built-In


Skill Level: Professional


Specific Uses For Product: Photography


Compatible Devices: Wi-Fi enabled devices, Bluetooth enabled devices


Continuous Shooting: 5 FPS


Aperture modes: Aperture Priority


Flash Sync Speed: 1/200


Video Capture Format: 4k


Connectivity Technology: Wi-Fi


Wireless Technology: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi


Total USB 3.0 Ports: 1


Total USB Ports: 1


Hardware Interface: Bluetooth


Display Type: LCD


Dots Per Screen: 326 or higher


Display Fixture Type: Fixed


Display Maximum Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pixels


Has Color Screen: Yes


Display Resolution Maximum: 52 megapixels


Touch Screen Type: LCD


Flash Memory Type: SDXC


Memory Storage Capacity: 256 GB


Write Speed: 5 fps


Flash Memory Speed Class: Clase 3 o superior


Flash Memory UHS Speed Class: U3


Flash Memory Video Speed Class: V30


Flash Memory Bus Interface Type: Single Data Rate (SDR)


Flash Memory Supported Size Maximum: 256 GB


Flash Memory Installed Size: 256 GB


JPEG Quality Level: Fine


Supported Image Format: JPEG


Dynamic Stops: 3 Stops


Bit Depth: 12 Bit


Total Still Resolution: 52 MP


Maximum Image Size: 150 Inches


Maximum Focal Length: 70 Millimeters


Optical Zoom: 4.28 x


Lens Type: Zoom


Zoom: Optical Zoom


Camera Lens: Zoom lens


Minimum Focal Length: 35 Millimeters


Real Angle Of View: 4.2 Degrees


Focal Length Description: 70 millimeters


Number of Diaphragm Blades: 7


Metering Methods: Evaluative


White Balance Settings: Flash torch


Crop Mode: 169


Brand: Light


Model Name: L16


Built-In Media: Camera Body & Accessories


Are Batteries Included: No


External-Memory Size: 256 GB


Model Number: L16


Remote Included: No


Model Series: L


Series Number: 16


Generation: 1


UPC: 052756982000


Unit Count: 1.0 Count


Manufacturer Part Number: L16


Manufacturer: Light


Age Range Description: Adult


Digital Scene Transition: False


Digital-Still: Yes


Movie Mode: No


Image Capture Type: Stills


Night vision: No


Auto Focus Technology: Contrast Detection


Focus Features: Autofocus


Autofocus Points: 1


Focus Type: Auto Focus


Focus Mode: Continuous-Servo AF (AF-C)


Autofocus: Yes


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    • Fun camera on a budget, if you work within it's limits Fun camera on a budget, if you work within it's limits
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The Light L16 is a strange device any way you look at it. The 16 lens' on the front are a conversation starter in and of themselves, not to mention the Android operating system under the hood and the very solid build. As for using the camera itself, the potential picture resolution is huge, and when used in the right conditions can produce photos that exceed a lot of smartphone cameras. However, the low light performance of the camera is poor at best, and to actually get the photos off of the camera you need the Lumen software which is slow and kinda janky. So for the prices they go for nowadays, I think it's a fun device! Just be aware of the (large) drawbacks. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2025 Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2025 by Cole
    • WASTE OF MIONEY - THANKS AMAZON
great idea - great camera...until you learn that there is NO WAY to use this thing whatsoever! you CANT get the latest firmware update. you CANT even get the proprietary software NEEDED to utilize the benefits of having 16 lenses...it is now a $300 paperweight. Amazon should NEVER have even sold this to me...and now - after exhausting ALL my attempts to get this thing working - Amazon will NOT let me return it OR the memory card (it did NOT need) or the SERVICE warranty I paid extra for. thanks for NOTHING - literally. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2023 by DrJ
    • Patience is a Virtue but Picture Quality Can Be Wonderful Patience is a Virtue but Picture Quality Can Be Wonderful
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Ok, so this camera, the Light L16 was discontinued in 2019, and here we are in 2022 and whoever had a remaining supply of them new has decided to clear them out. Original price $2000, current price… I paid $169, and since my purchase it has dropped to $159, and possibly lower (now in early 2023 they are up to $250). Originally described as a DSLR in your pocket, the L16 has 16 cameras and lenses… Yes, 16. It takes photos with between 5 and 10 cameras at a time, and the closer to 35mm and 75mm you set the zoom, the better the image quality. The largest resolution photos are taken at 28mm (80MP), and the lowest resolution shots are at 69mm and 150mm (13MP). So, if you want the absolute best image quality you will shoot at 35MM and 75MM and you will have about 52MP resolution and the shot will be taken with 10 camera. This is a good camera for someone who has patience, and who isn’t in a hurry to take a shot. It isn’t well suited for sports photography, or for shooting anything that is moving fast, like a baby or a toddler. It is a great conversation starter. When you pull it out of its case, everyone will be asking what it is. As I said, patience is important, and that is even more tru for processing the images into a usable result. To get anything better than 13MP, you absolutely HAVE to process the photos with the Luma software., which can be quite slow. Fortunately it puts out DNG files, so you can use Adobe Lightroom to finish put the editing. About the software, it runs on Windows10, so since most of yo have that, then you are good. For you Mac owners, like me however, things get a bit more sticky. Lumen does run on a Mac, but it only runs on macOS Catalina (10.15.7), not the lastest macOS Ventura, so you will either have to keep a Windows machine around to post process the L16 images, or you will ahve to keep an older Mac around, or run older macOS software in a virtual machine to get it to run on Ventura. Not a simple task, and I am still working out the details of my workflow. Oh, and before I forget, I need to mention that you need lots of storage for your images too, several hundred MB for each photo, so be sure to buy that external 4TB drive so you don’t run out too quickly. Overview: Ok, so by now you know that camera isn’t for everybody. If you are up for a challenge, and I do mean a challenge, then the low price of the camera at this point might be enough to make you opt-in. If you do, don’t say I didn’t warn you, and if you find the challenge is too great, then let me know I will take it off your hands if you will let it go pretty cheap. Good luck!! Update 1: As I mentioned above, Macintosh computer users may have some problems trying to get the Light Lumen software to work on their computers. If you have a Mac with the new M1/M2 cpu like I do then my experience is that we are out of luck. The Lumen software does not run on Ventura. I was hopeful that I could run an older version of the macOS, virtualized on my current Mac, but that turns out not to work “YET”! I tried UTM, VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, VirtualBuddy, and Parallels, and I was not able to get any of the x86 version s of the macOS to run on any of them on my M1 Mac. There are Arm versions of macOS that will run, but those versions of macOS don’t run the Lumen software. So, it seems like we are stuck running Lumen on an old Macintosh with an Intel processor or on a Windows10/11 machine. I have not yet tried virtualizing Windows10/11 x86 on my M1 Mac, but it seems unlikely that will work either. My final takeaway for this update is that there just doesn’t seem like there is any way to run Lumen on a modern Mac, even in a virtual machine. This is sad because it means the workflow to use a Light L16 camera is very cumbersome and involves moving hundreds of MB of photo data between at least two computer. Sad indeed! Update 1.1: I ended up buying a small BeeLink SEi8 Windows11 machine (from Amazon) for use with my initial Light L16 for importing and initial image processing. Then after I have the images in the computer I use a program called FreeFileSync to copy the images over to a shared folder on my Mac mini. This works well and allows me to do any final image editing on Adobe Lightroom. Update 2: *** Hope Where Little Hope Exists *** When Light.co went out of business, the company was bought by John Deere corporation. Deer got all the software and firmware from Light.co to use in their international like of optically controlled automated farm equipment. They wanted Light.co’s technology, and that was a smart move that has probably advanced Deere immeasurably in the design and manufacturing of their big automated harvesters. I know, an interesting story. Well, the reason I tell you this is because I have been unable to contact anyone in the Deere software development group in the hope of convincing them to license or release the L16 firmware source code so that it can be further developed for the community. As a software engineer, soon retiring, I would love ot have a personal software development project on the L16 to bring it up to date on the latest Android 11, and to enhance the current PC/Mac software to run on the latest computers. I don’t want to make any money doing this, as I am already setup for retirement, and it would need to be a community project so others could participate in the development. It would not harm the John Deere corporation in any way, and would provide a show of support to the community that would enhance their already stellar reputation. So, I am asking/pleading with John Deere corporation to contact me to start this process of bringing new life to a product that died way too early. Thank you for listening. Tom Zimmer PhotoBubba “on the web” (dot) com ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022 Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022 by PhotoBubba
    • Convenient for travel and sharper images than my Samsung Galaxy S21+
I am a retired, professional photographer who used to shoot with two Canon 5D Mark IV DSLRs. Ever since my son was born, I had hung up the cameras in order to focus on raising him -- then two children followed for a total of three. I have rarely reached out to the Canon 5D's now to take photos because they are so bulky and inconvenient to carry around. Smartphones have come a long way and produce excellent images, especially when enhanced by the phone's artificial intelligence/processing algorithm. And so I find myself taking photos and videos mostly from the phones purely out of convenience for the moment unfolding right in front of my eyes. As well as smartphones -- like my Samsung Galaxy S21+ -- take photos, they are only really good when viewed on the camera or screen and when printed in small sizes for those of you who still do prints (we occasionally do.) One thing that most smartphones have in common is their lack of optical zooms. Nokia came out with some great phones when they were under Microsoft's ownership long ago. Alas, it did not sell well. This Light-branded camera caught my eye (no pun intended) with its multiples of lenses. There are 16 of them -- SIXTEEN! What would you do with so many lenses, you may ask? From zooming in or out, creating beautifully rich, blurred backgrounds or what not, each one serves a different purpose for the scene or artistic vision before you. The photographer gets to choose the focal length, aperture, and shutter speed, of course, mirroring very much a digital SLR's capabilities. The lenses are equivalent to 35mm, 70mm, and 150mm. The human eye sees at about 50mm. Camera is compact and fits in the back of my pants pocket, charges via USB-C (cable and USB 3.0 AC adapter included), and the 5x optical zoom helps ensure the zoomed images look much sharper than if done through my Samsung phone (whose optical zoom maxes out at 2x.) How do the images compare to my Canon 5D Mark IV. Well, comparing a $400 camera is not really fair to a $2,700 DSLR (which does not include the cost of the various, equivalent lenses that this Light one comes with). With that said, the photos came out pretty decent in well-lit environments with slightly cold color reproduction, good sharpness and background blur (bokeh), and dynamic range (capturing dark and light scenes pretty well with little banding). HDR images came out surprisingly good. In dark environments, the Canon is no match -- Light's images produced some banding and introduced quite a bit of noise as you cranked up the ISO level. You can see some artificial image processing in the final photos where it had attempted to denoise. Still, they came out better than my Samsung Galaxy S21+ phone's. Images can be viewed from the built-in 5" touchscreen, but like other, non-SLR cameras, there is no optical viewfinder to take photos through. You rely on the touchscreen to frame and photograph your subjects. The built-in flash is tiny and laughable, as expected, for a camera of this size. There is no connection option for an external flash. Neither do smartphones. I did not test the 4K video capability. WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth are built in for geotagging images and downloading them to the smartphone or computer. Memory is built-in with a generous 256GB. It cannot be expanded nor is it removable. What this means is that if the camera dies, the repair person or someone digging through your trash could potentially get a hold of your photos. So, be sure to destroy the camera if you want to get rid of your photos when it no longer works. ... show more
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Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2025 by Charles
    • Interesting piece of tech history.. terrible camera.
Ok.. let's be honest here. You don't buy this to take pictures.. you buy this because it's iconically bad. This was a tech demonstrator that was designed by engineers.. and NOT photographers. It's been absolutely curb-stomped by all modern cell cameras because they are engineered TO TAKE PICTURES... as in.. smartphone manufacturers know that the experience matters... and that the pics need to look good on a device, and they need to be easy to move on/off the device. These guys tried to replace DSLRs with this thing and just couldn't quite pull it off.. but my gosh it's a neat gadget. Too bad the workflow is awful and I needed an obsolete windows computer to get the pictures off the device. WHO CARES. For less than 200 bucks I grabbed a camera that was crowdsourced in the thousands... with no plans to seriously shoot with it. As a tech nerd and photographer, it's an oddity, and for that, I love it. I will keep mine and so one day I can sell it to a museum to sit next to the Edsel automobile. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2025 by Fatso
    • No Software, No Updates - Beyond Useless
The files that the camera creates for the high-resolution (52mp) pictures are .lri files. The software that the camera is designed to be used with, Lumen, is not available anywhere. Without that software, the best photos you will get are crappy jpg thumbnails. Also, the last firmware did not come installed in this camera. While it is supposedly available, it has to be side-loaded in developer mode. If you're a linux fan, then that may not sound like a big deal, but for normal people, it is. If the software were available, I would make the effort to try to make it work. Without Lumen, this is a waste of money. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2023 by Joseph R.
    • Amazing piece of technology!
I got this camera because I am searching for some high resolution digital senzors to create large image tiles for Ai training. This serves the purpose very well and it is a very compact and fun camera for travel also. The setup was pretty straightforward, you need to charge it for at least 5-6hrs and then copy-paste the provided firmware files. The interesting aspect of this camera is that you can modify the image afterwards or even play with the source code of the app, which is provided on github. Battery life is around 2-3 days for 200-300 pictures, you can leave the os running all that time, turning on and off just consumes more power. Best results in terms of quality are with the 35mm and 70mm arrays. Focus on details and well lit objects gives impressive results. Try to delete the files after 400-500 shots otherwise the os becomes slow. ... show more
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