31 Quotes by Ren Ng

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.

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.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

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.

When a regular camera focuses physically, what the regular camera is doing is adjusting the lens relative to the sensor to bring different parts of the scene into focus.

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.

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.

With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.