Reverse Engineering the Lytro .LFP File Format After getting my Lytro camera yesterday, I set about answering the questions about the light field capture format I had from the last time around. Lytro may be focusing (pun absolutely intended) on the Facebook using crowd with their camera and software, but their file format suggests they don’t mind nerds like us poking around. The file structure is the same as what they use for their compressed web display .lfp files, complete with a plain text table of contents, so I was able to re-use the lfpsplitter tool I wrote earlier with some minor modifications. The README with the tool describes in detail the format of the file and how to parse it. The table of contents in the raw .lfp files gives away most of the camera’s secrets. Syncing the camera to Lytro’s desktop software backs it up the first time. Hopefully one of those updates enables a USB Mass Storage mode, as there does not appear to be any way to get files off of the camera in Linux. Thank you for purchasing your Lytro camera.
How to Get Your Camera Back When You Lose It Most of us photographers have a few ‘worst nightmare scenarios’. One of them is losing our cameras. Andrew McDonald has a strategy just for you that will increase the chance of getting your camera back. He took the following series of images and leaves them on his camera so that anyone who finds it and scrolls through his pictures will see them. Enjoy. Thanks to Andrew for allowing us to share these images.
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