Ren Ng

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

“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.”

“DSLRs take beautiful pictures, but they are hard to focus.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I just love taking pictures.”

“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.”

“We have seen amazing, creative and interactive pictures from camera owners, and I'm looking forward to the Lytro camera being available in Australia.”

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

“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.”

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

“Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures.”

“The merging of science and art is at the core of what we do.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”