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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Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
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The first light-field camera array I saw at Stanford had a bunch of applications, like to do special effects like you see in 'The Matrix,' where you spin the camera around in frozen motion. It took up an entire room.
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The reason we know as human beings that pictures have to be focused before you take the shot is because we know if we're not focusing our eyes on something that happens, then it's too late - you can't go searching in your memory to find it because that light never struck your mind.
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I don't remember the first picture I took, but I actually found a picture of myself on a trip back to my old family home in Malaysia. I'm five years old, sitting on the floor with the family camera in my hand. It was a film camera - not a DSLR - with a fixed lens and a nice manual zoom.
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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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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 light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
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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.
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On the personal side, I was rock climbing and taking pictures with my friends. We took all sorts of portrait and action pictures, and I was thinking at the time that these are inherently difficult to focus correctly.
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I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background.
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Catching the right fleeting moment, with the right focus, is a very difficult thing to do.
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Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.
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Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures.
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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.