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Mar 30

Video: How to Completely Take Apart a Lytro LightField Camera

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If you’re trying to take apart your Lytro LightField Camera, we have a couple of interesting How To articles available here. But what if you want to go a bit further?

Jason Wolf, who earlier documented the Lytro disassembly process down to the major camera parts, has created an 11 minute video that shows you, in full detail, how to completely disassemble Lytro’s LightField Camera.

Video: How to Completely Take Apart a Lytro LightField Camera Completely

While Jason goes down to the individual lenses, mainboard and electronic shutter, we don’t recommend using a pipe wrench on your lens system if you’d like to use your camera again. ;)

Check out the full video after the break: Continue reading →

Mar 09

How to disassemble your Lytro Camera (Part 3)

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Many of our readers are interested in the internal details of Lytro’s LightField Camera, and our How Tos covering the disassembly of the camera are amongst our most popular articles.

Recently, LightField Forum user ewolfy has provided us with a detailed tutorial on how to separate the optical elements from the display and battery. For easier access, the text and photos are included in below: Continue reading →

Nov 27

How to disassemble your Lytro Camera (Part 1)

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If you’d like to open and disassemble your Lytro LightField Camera – be it to fix a problem (we’d like to remind you of Lytro’s cheap repairs/replacement service at this point, though!) or to satiate your curiosity – you may have a hard time finding screws to undo.
There are screws to open the camera, you just need know where they are: They’re hidden beneath the cameras black plastic front cover around the lens, which is held in place by adhesive tape.

How to disassemble a Lytro Camera (Part 1)

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Oct 08

How to Move your Lytro Library to a different Location using Symlinks

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How to Move your Lytro Library to a different Location using Symlinks Wouldn’t it be great to be able to move the Lytro picture library to whatever directory you want? Lytro doesn’t offer such a feature in its Desktop Software (yet?), but what about just “pretending” the files are where they should be?
Luckily, modern operating systems allow you to do just that: It’s called symbolic linking, and it originates from the Unix environment.

As Wikipedia explains, “programs that read or write to files named by a symbolic link will behave as if operating directly on the target file.”

In this short How To article, we’ll show you how to move your Lytro library using symbolic links (symlinks) in Windows 7. Symlinks are also available in Mac OS X, and the procedure is quite similar. Continue reading →