"I think a lot of people mistake our product as a gadget": Camera Intelligence at CP+

Some of the Camera Intelligence team, all holding Cairas. Left: Vik Kumar, COO. Middle: Vishal Kumar, CEO. Right: Liam Donovan, CTO.Photo: Mitchell Clark "I think a lot of people mistake our product as a gadget," says Vishal Kumar, CEO of Camera Intelligence, the company behind the Caira, a Micro Four Thirds camera that attaches to the back of an iPhone. "That's the wrong way to think about it," he says. "We're building the full technology stack, we believe, for the future of cameras." While the company is currently wrapping up its Kickstarter campaign for the Caira, it has much bigger ambitions than selling an accessory that makes your phone a better camera, or even than selling dedicated cameras. Ultimately, it says, it's trying to change how cameras are made, and trying to convince the established camera companies that its tech is the way to photography's next step forward. What is Caira? The Caira has a Micro Four Thirds mount and an 11MP sensor. It doesn't work stan