philip lelyveld The world of entertainment technology

A startup called Light uses a cluster of small camera modules to create top-notch photos. First stop: Your smartphone.

Light aims to put a bunch of small lenses, each paired with its own image sensor, into smartphones and other gadgets. They’ll fire simultaneously when you take a photo, and software will automatically combine the images. This way, Light believes, it can fit the quality and zoom of a bulky, expensive DSLR camera into much smaller, cheaper packages—even phones.

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