Ren Ng
Ren Ng
Yi-Ren Ngis the founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Lytro, a Mountain View, California-based startup company. Lytro is developing consumer light-field cameras based on Ng's graduate research at Stanford University...
NationalityMalaysian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth21 September 1979
CountryMalaysia
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Light-field photography is a transformational technology that needs a transformational product to introduce it. For the first time, we have a light-field camera that's going to be for everyone - not something in a huge room in a research facility.
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We have seen amazing, creative and interactive pictures from camera owners, and I'm looking forward to the Lytro camera being available in Australia.
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Unlike regular digital or film cameras, which can only record a scene in two dimensions, light field cameras capture all of the light rays traveling in every direction through a scene. This means that some aspects of a picture can be manipulated after the fact.
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The megapixel war in conventional cameras has been a total myth. It's taking us all in the wrong direction. Once a picture goes online, you're throwing away 95 to 98 percent of those pixels.
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I loved photography but was frustrated by the limitations of cameras. When trying to take a picture of a friend's young, active daughter using my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting moments.
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The merging of science and art is at the core of what we do.
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With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
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DSLRs take beautiful pictures, but they are hard to focus.
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Yes, we are a producer of cameras, but we understand that at the end of the day, you have to make photos in software. A lot of companies focus on the camera side, and a lot are on the software side. There's a chasm between the two.
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With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.
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There's something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras.
There's something about light field photography that's just magical.
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I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics.
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I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.