Fun with Light L16

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@Godfrey
I grew-up for a time in the Cherry Hill and Haddonfield area. My mother was from Audubon and my father was from Ship Bottom originally.
I am heading up that way in a few weeks to visit family and friends. Its a small world!

I also grew up in Topanga California and have more family in California than NJ.
Maybe we have crossed paths before.

Best to you!

 

[Godfrey]

I grew up in New Rochelle, NY. Moved around a lot during my late 'teens/early 20s, and then settled into remaining in Middle California just as I turned 30. I lived for a time in Pasadena area, while I worked at NASA/JPL, but moved north again when I went to work for Apple. Been here in the SF Bay Area ever since.

I was in Cherry Hill and Haddonfield for a couple of weeks because my friend and acupressure therapist moved there about 18 years ago after she despaired of ever being able to afford a house of her own here in the Bay Area. After last October's car accident, and the consequent shoulder replacement surgery in December, I wrote her asking if she knew another acupressure therapist here that she'd recommend for my therapy.

"Heck with that! Come visit me for two weeks, stay in my house, and I'll get you set up for some sessions...." I didn't hesitate for one second: Rena is the best.

I'd only ever been to Cherry Hill once before ... an old roommate of mine at Fordham University came from there, and I went with him for a weekend's visit to his parents. That was eons ago. But it's a pleasant place, I got to do a lot of walking through the parks and neighborhoods, and went to the Philadelphia for a performance of Carmina Burana at the Philharmonic. The goals of the trip were met, Rena worked her magic on my shoulder and legs, and I'm now feeling like I'm finally 90%+ of the way back to being healed from that cataclysm in October.

Whether we've crossed paths, I dunno. But if you're ever in the San Jose area and have some free time, just let me know and we'll have a meal, a coffee, and a lot of laughs telling stories to each other.

onwards, always onwards!
G

 

[hypothetical]

Is it possible to create stereoscopic pairs from a single shot with this camera? Does one have access to all 16 individual shots after a shutter actuation?

 

[Godfrey]

Is it possible to create stereoscopic pairs from a single shot with this camera? Does one have access to all 16 individual shots after a shutter actuation?

No. ... but perhaps more detail is needed to clarify how the camera and its dedicated software work with respect to the image data and image processing settings.

The Light L16 does have 16 individual cameras. For each exposure, its firmware chooses the 10 most appropriate cameras for the task (based on the current equivalent focal length setting and focus distance); just those ten cameras are triggered for the actual exposure. Their output is encoded into a single, proprietary file per exposure plus a sidecar file that either the internal image processing software or the dedicated Lumen.app application decodes and coalesces together, and outputs to a .DNG file or a finished .JPG file based on what is done with the various apriori and post processing settings you make.

Output from the camera is transferred to computer directly as file pairs of L16_xxxxx.lri (image data) and L16_xxxxx.lris (image settings) with the Lumen application. These image data+settings files can also be output by Lumen as .DNG, .JPEG, or .DNG+.JPEG output files. Output from the camera can also be encoded as JPEG files, and then piped through the SnapSeed application (downloadable and installed on the camera) to output to Flickr and other image file repositories outside the camera.

What the individual cameras' output is recorded as in the proprietary .lri file is hard to say without spending time to deconvolve the file format, which I have not attempted to do.

G