Ren Ng Quotes
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I just love taking pictures.
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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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There's something about light field photography that's just magical.
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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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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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Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.
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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 c, and a lot are on the software side. There's a chasm between the two.
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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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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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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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Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures.
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Catching the right fleeting moment, with the right focus, is a very difficult thing to 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.