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19 March 2018

Today, we’re opening Light EU. This is a big moment—not just for the company, but for the whole photography world. We’ve pushed beyond the limits of the modern camera and built an imaging device unlike any other out there. We’ve built the camera of the future—a smaller, smarter, easier way to photograph. And now the future is available for an international audience.* Building a global e-commerce experience from scratch hasn’t been easy. As our international followers know all too well, there have been bumps along the way. But we stuck ...

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L16 Update

01 July 2016

Last October, we debuted the L16, the world’s first multi-aperture computational camera. Since then, we’ve been working feverishly to bring our camera to market. We have some very exciting news to share today. L16 Product Improvements First, we’ve made some changes to the L16 product spec that we think you’re going to like. When we launched L16 pre-orders, we planned to provide 35-150mm optical zoom equivalent. Many of our pre-order customers emailed us asking for a wider focal length, and we listened. Today, we are pleased to announce that the shipping L16 ...

Rajiv Laroia

Introducing the Light L16 Camera

07 October 2015

by Rajiv Laroia, Light co-founder and CTO Light was founded to make beautiful photography more accessible than ever before. Today, we’re excited to announce we’ve made the first step toward this goal with the launch of the Light L16 Camera. This is the first product launch for Light, and as any parent or startup founder will tell you, the arrival of your firstborn is a nerve-wracking experience. When my daughter was born in 1999, I arrived at the hospital armed with my first 1 megapixel camera. Like all new parents, I was eager to ...

Dave Grannan

Adding Fuel to the Fire

30 July 2015

Light Closes $25 Million Series B Financing, Led by Formation 8 Hardware Fund by Dave Grannan, co-founder & CEO “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible,” Walt Disney once said. At Light, we are bringing incredibly high quality photography to small, mobile devices. At the dawn of Light, some called our challenge impossible. They told us that one simply could not increase the image quality of a photograph and decrease the optical size of the camera. But this challenge wouldn’t be fun if some didn’t deem it impossible. Others, however, were excited ...

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Partnering with Sunny Optical

02 July 2015

Building groundbreaking technology products isn't easy. It truly takes a village. Along the way we've enlisted the help of incredible partners. We've previously talked about working with Foxconn's FIH Mobile. Today we're thrilled to share more about our work with Sunny Optical to help bring our camera technology to the world. Read more here. ...