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The multi aperture thing doesn't make much sense, it appears to have multiple lenses which will have debilitating parallax error due to the positioning. I don't

The multi aperture thing doesn't make much sense, it appears to have multiple lenses which will have debilitating parallax error due to the positioning. I don't see how that's possible. I'm also struggling to see why they laid out the sensors in such a non geometric pattern too.

tlrobinson 11y ago
Parallax could be corrected by software as long as the subject isn't too close. You might lose a little detail around the edges but with enough redundancy it's probably not a big deal
- steckerbrett 11y ago
  In their examples there's a macro photo of a chess board.
  - tlrobinson 11y ago
    Yeah, it does look a little funky around the edges of the pieces in the background, but surprisingly not the foreground: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4rx62fjo63nvk4/Screenshot%202015-10-07%2022.28.55.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4rx62fjo63nvk4/Screenshot%202015-...
    - steckerbrett 11y ago
      https://light.co/content/2-gallery/gallery_modal_05.jpg https://light.co/content/2-gallery/gallery_modal_05.jpg You're right, that's like no lens blur I've ever seen.
      - vanderZwan 11y ago
        It's a lot like an unsharp-mask halo though
      - alanh 11y ago
        Right. Also surprising how much fine noise there is in the background — it ‘should be’ out of focus enough there there would be nearly no noise at all…
  - thrownaway2424 11y ago
    If you look closely at that photo, the result is really weird. The black pieces behind the plane of focus have very uncertain positions that the software didn't bother fixing. It's bokeh, in a way. A horrible way.
    - reitoei 11y ago
      Yup, it's not nice. Headache inducing.
  - leni536 11y ago
    I think that's just a zoomed up picture with low depth of field. I'm not a photographer so correct me if I'm wrong. The chess pieces in the background look still quite big compared to the pieces in the front. It suggests that the photo was taken from around 30-40 cm.

tlrobinson 11y ago

Parallax could be corrected by software as long as the subject isn't too close. You might lose a little detail around the edges but with enough redundancy it's probably not a big deal

steckerbrett 11y ago
In their examples there's a macro photo of a chess board.
- tlrobinson 11y ago
  Yeah, it does look a little funky around the edges of the pieces in the background, but surprisingly not the foreground: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4rx62fjo63nvk4/Screenshot%202015-10-07%2022.28.55.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4rx62fjo63nvk4/Screenshot%202015-...
  - steckerbrett 11y ago
    https://light.co/content/2-gallery/gallery_modal_05.jpg https://light.co/content/2-gallery/gallery_modal_05.jpg You're right, that's like no lens blur I've ever seen.
    - vanderZwan 11y ago
      It's a lot like an unsharp-mask halo though
    - alanh 11y ago
      Right. Also surprising how much fine noise there is in the background — it ‘should be’ out of focus enough there there would be nearly no noise at all…
- thrownaway2424 11y ago
  If you look closely at that photo, the result is really weird. The black pieces behind the plane of focus have very uncertain positions that the software didn't bother fixing. It's bokeh, in a way. A horrible way.
  - reitoei 11y ago
    Yup, it's not nice. Headache inducing.
- leni536 11y ago
  I think that's just a zoomed up picture with low depth of field. I'm not a photographer so correct me if I'm wrong. The chess pieces in the background look still quite big compared to the pieces in the front. It suggests that the photo was taken from around 30-40 cm.