Lytro Archive — Software, Firmware & Documentation

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Lytro ceased operations in early 2018. This archive preserves the software, camera firmware, manuals, and tools for working with Lytro Living Pictures.

Notice: Lytro ceased operations in early 2018. All links point to community-archived copies of official software. Software is provided as-is without support.
Desktop Software Camera Firmware Tools User Manuals Open Source Sample Files

Desktop Software

Lytro Desktop 5.0.1 windows

Lytro Desktop for Windows — view, edit and export Living Pictures. Latest version for Windows.

5.0.1 (151215.109) 25.2 MiB
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Lytro Desktop 4.3.3 mac

Lytro Desktop for Mac OS — last official version for macOS.

4.3.3 (151118.98) 27.2 MiB
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Lytro Desktop (Internet Archive)

Archive of all Lytro Desktop versions on Internet Archive, including early releases.

Multiple versions
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Camera Firmware

Lytro Light Field Camera Firmware (1st Gen) camera

Latest official firmware v1.2.2 for the 1st generation Lytro camera (Firefly).

v1.2.2 (208) — 2013-10-07 14.0 MiB
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Lytro Illum Firmware camera

Latest official firmware v2.0.0 for the Lytro Illum. Includes Creative Mode.

v2.0.0 (42) — 2015-07-09 170.8 MiB
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Firmware History (Lytro Meltdown)

Full firmware version history for both cameras (Lytro Meltdown archive).

All versions
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Tools

Lytro Power Tools (Windows) windows

Lytro Power Tools Beta for Windows — advanced tools for LFP and XRAW file processing.

v1.0.0b0 (2015-08-18) 9.3 MiB
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Lytro Power Tools (Mac) mac

Lytro Power Tools Beta for Mac — advanced tools for LFP and XRAW file processing.

v1.0.0b0 (2015-08-18) 11.9 MiB
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Lytro Illum Open Source

Open source code used in Lytro Illum (GPL/LGPL components).

1.0.0 (2014-07-09) 155.8 MiB
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User Manuals

User Manual: Lytro Light Field Camera (1st Gen)

Official user manual for the 1st generation Lytro camera.

2012 4.4 MiB
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Lytro Illum User Manual (English)

Official Lytro Illum user manual in English, version 2.1.

v2.1 (20150805) 9.3 MiB
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Lytro Illum Benutzerhandbuch (Deutsch)

Official Lytro Illum user manual in German, version 2.1.

v2.1 (20150805) 9.2 MiB
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Руководство пользователя Lytro ILLUM (Русский)

Official Lytro Illum user manual in Russian, version 2.1.

v2.1 (20150805) 8.8 MiB
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Open Source

lfptools (nrpatel)

C tools for LFP files: extraction, parsing, conversion.

GitHub
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lfp-viewer (bkerley)

JavaScript LFP file viewer for web browsers.

GitHub
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lytro_unlock (ea)

Reverse engineering documentation for the 1st gen Lytro camera protocols.

GitHub
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Lytro Meltdown (Jan Kučera)

Lytro Meltdown — largest Lytro resource archive: firmware, software, documentation, API.

Web archive
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Sample Files

Sample LFP Files (1st Gen)

Sample LFP files from the 1st generation Lytro camera for testing.

LFP format
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Lytro Illum XRAW Samples

Sample XRAW files from Lytro Illum, including sensor calibration data.

XRAW + calibration
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Lytro Illum RAW Samples

Additional RAW sample files from Lytro Illum.

RAW format
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Lytro Desktop System Requirements

Minimum Requirements

Mac OS:

  • Mac OS X 10.9 or later
  • 4 GB RAM
  • Intel Core 2 Duo or newer

Windows:

  • 64-bit Windows 7 or Windows 8
  • 4 GB RAM
  • DirectX 10.0, dual-core CPU
Recommended Requirements

Mac OS:

  • Mac OS X 10.9 or later
  • 8 GB RAM
  • Intel i5 or faster

Windows:

  • 64-bit Windows 7 or Windows 8
  • 8 GB RAM
  • Intel i5 or equivalent
  • GPU: Intel HD 4600+ / AMD Radeon HD 6750+ / NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450+

Academic Papers

  • Ren Ng — Digital Light Field Photography, Stanford PhD Dissertation, 2006
  • Ren Ng et al. — Light Field Photography with a Hand-Held Plenoptic Camera, Stanford CSTR-2005-02
  • Ren Ng — Fourier Slice Photography, SIGGRAPH 2005
  • Chia-Kai Liang, Ravi Ramamoorthi — A Light Transport Framework for Lenslet Light Field Cameras, ACM TOG 2015
  • Li-Yi Wei et al. — Improving Light Field Camera Sample Design With Irregularity and Aberration, SIGGRAPH 2015
  • Marc Levoy et al. — Light Field Microscopy, SIGGRAPH 2006

Press Releases

  • 2016-04-11 — Lytro Cinema announced for film and TV production
  • 2015-11-05 — Lytro Immerge: first professional light field solution for VR
  • 2015-08-19 — Lytro Power Tools enters Beta phase
  • 2015-07-09 — Lytro Illum major software update (v2.0, Creative Mode)
  • 2014-11-06 — Lytro Platform launched (Power Tools, Development Kit)
  • 2014-04-22 — Lytro Illum unveiled
  • 2013-11-12 — Lytro adds 3D capabilities and worldwide distribution
  • 2013-06-19 — Lytro Mobile for iOS released
  • 2011-10-19 — World's first consumer light field camera unveiled