Light’s upcoming smartphone to feature nine lenses

Mobile digital photography company Light, which got famous for its 16-lens camera, has now planned to create a smartphone with nine lenses.

Where smartphones now integrate two or three camera lenses, the Silicon Valley-based startup Light plans to incorporate nine lenses into a single smartphone. The company showed its concept and working prototype handsets to The Washington Post that had between five and nine lenses at its back.

Aiming to launch the phone by this year’s end, Light says that its smartphone camera will provide exceptional low-light performance and also different depth effects while capturing images of up to 64MP.

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The smartphone will, however, be a bit more thick than the iPhone X. Also, unlike current smartphones, Light’s upcoming phone will probably have a circular camera arrangement at the back of the phone.

See this crazy prototype phone with 9 lenses? NINE! @TheLightCo tells me says a smartphone featuring its multi-lens array will be announced later THIS YEAR. https://t.co/uWnMT4k3oX pic.twitter.com/dsMVhALrfW

— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) June 29, 2018

It hasn’t been clear for now whether Light is developing the phone on its own or partnering with some other existing smartphone brands. Moreover, the device is not expected to be cheap either. The L16 camera with 16 lenses cost $1,950, though dropping to nine lenses might cut down prices but not by much, as per Slash Gear.

Light’s unique L16 camera worked by using multiple lenses at once, each at various focal lengths, while combining all the data together for creating a single DSLR-quality 56MP photo.