12 Ren Ng Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ren Ng

Malaysian Businessman

Born: Sep 21, 1979

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It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time. Ren Ng

Time Difficult Take Because Around Very Candid Children Moving Portraits

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. Ren Ng

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. Ren Ng

Light Digital Picture Field Every Unlike Dimensions Record Some Direction Only Scene Fact Through Rays Cameras After Which Manipulated Regular Means Aspects Capture Traveling Film Two

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. Ren Ng

Photography Impossible Daughter Picture Young Active Take Limitations Cameras Friend Trying Loved Frustrated Fleeting Moments Using Capture

The merging of science and art is at the core of what we do. Ren Ng

Art Science Merging Core

If you think about all the light that enters - that enters the lens of a camera, that's much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that's lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact. Ren Ng

Camera 1.0 was film. Camera 2.0 was digital. 3.0 is a light-field camera that opens all these new possibilities for your picture taking. Ren Ng

Digital Picture Possibilities Taking New Opens Camera New Possibilities Your Film

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot. Ren Ng

Time You Focus Before Take Allow Camera Shot Regular Basically

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. Ren Ng

You Eyes Memory Too Late Light Mind Before Too Late Our Focused Focusing Find Something Struck Take Never Pictures Know Because Go Human Human Beings Happens Then Shot Your Reason Beings Searching

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. Ren Ng

Myself Home Family Remember Old First Picture Nice Took Back Trip Malaysia Camera Years Hand Five Fixed Sitting Lens Manual Film Found Floor Actually

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background. Ren Ng

Become Background Would Reluctant Primarily Academic Due Company Start

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