The Wall Street Journal:
LinX develops and markets miniature cameras for tablets and smartphones. Using an array of sensors that capture multiple images at the same time and proprietary algorithms, LinX says its cameras can gauge depth and create three-dimensional image maps.
Last year, the company said its tiny camera modules allow for better-quality pictures in low light and faster exposure at standard indoor conditions. It said the technology offers single-lens-reflex (SLR) camera image quality without the need for a bulky device.
Its technology, according to the company’s news releases, can open the way to features like automatic background removal, 3-D object modeling and face recognition.
Will mobile cameras pass the SLR quality threshold with the next wave of releases? That would be something.
Really it should be “larger sensor” image quality, not SLR image quality as there are mirrorless cameras that equal SLRs because they have the same sensor.
Considering that the purchased was rumoured to be 20 million I would be hesitant to put too much value on the company technology.
If it would be able to “replace” or match DSLR IQ while having a sensor tenth of the size of APC-S or full frame camera, the company would be worth many many times that amount. (add a zero or two)
“Will mobile cameras pass the SLR quality threshold with the next wave of releases?”
No!
HTH.
And imagine what those same advances would then do for SLR (and similar quality) cameras!
Will mobile cameras pass the SLR quality threshold with the next wave of releases? That would be something.
No, not today.
They won’t surpass them for flexibility with wide and telephoto lenses, not to mention specialty lenses such as Macro, high-speed, and the use of anomalous dispersion glass, fluorite, and multiple aspheric surfaces.