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This January, we focused most of our engineering efforts on improving the experience of autofocus. Not only did we make AF faster and more reactive, we also made this crucial feature more dynamic in nature by introducing face detection and motion sensitivity. Let’s walk through the L16’s new Dynamic AF (or AF-D) together. If you’re an L16 photographer, you’ll notice a difference in the way AF looks. We updated the old blue focus circle to a yellow square. This should make it easier to see if your camera is in focus when ...

You ask. We answer. Today, we’re gathering Light executives in our Palo Alto headquarters for a live Facebook Q&A session. We’ll cover everything from the state of our software today to where we’re hoping to take the L16—and our computational imaging technology—this coming year. This is your chance to ask those burning questions you’ve been pondering for quite some time. We know many of you are eager to hear about our plans for 2018, so we’ve shared our roadmap with you below. We’ll go into more ...

As you know well by now, our engineers are constantly refining and tuning the Light L16’s proprietary algorithms—what are essentially our camera’s secret sauce. In our most recent update, we made major improvements to the L16’s image quality through tone mapping, which has a big impact on how we render dynamic range in our images. It’s helpful to understand dynamic range before we jump into local tone mapping. Dynamic range represents the values between the brightest brights in the image’s highlights and the darkest darks in the shadows. Having a ...