The evolution of phones

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The multiple lenses in a traditional professional photograph setup are stacked in front of each other, so they stick out a lot. The multiple cameras on a back of a phone are a workaround for trying to get good image quality and versatile zoom without making the lens stick out too far.

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Bugs don't have much "software" going on, and the reason for many lenses is only superficially similar. On phones you want different lenses to do different things, while the bug has different lenses to look into different directions without all the volume "between" eyes also being a lens (I think).

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Unfortunately brains are computers I’m sorry. It’s not exactly software but it is a computation. Many insects have compound eyes that allow them see in many directions. Compound eyes are collections of eye that form one large eye. This does not indicate directly that they do this to prevent the space between the eye from also being an eye. Having many eyes from different perspectives can be useful for many reasons. A big one being depth perception.

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OP is a solid fella. Cropped the image but moved the artists so is still visible after the crop.

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Be not afraid

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My phone has one camera with less pixels, because that is better for low light conditions (allegedly).

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This is funky funny

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…and say “Cheese!”

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More moving parts prone to failure, I would guess

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i think we should add a couple of folds for good measure

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I had that phone where the selfie camera extended out of the top whenever you wanted to use it. It reminded me of flipup headlights. Best phone I ever had.

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Yeah, but you gotta guess which camera your finger is covering..

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That's the great part, you actually dont. The image can be resolved with the data available from the others.

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My phone has 2 rear cameras, ignoring the selfie camera. I definitely know which camera is which. One is for images, the other is for LIDAR.