Those of you who are using lfpsplitter to extract data and image stacks from LightField files have no doubt already noticed this, but we thought we’d bring it out to the open:
With the introduction of the new Perspective Shift feature last December, Lytro has made some changes to the structure of -stk.lfp files which effectively break lfpsplitter’s functionality.
The culprit seems to lie in file compression: Continue reading
Interactive refocus is nice, but it’s just one of the possibilities of LightField photography. Another feature that LightField fans seem anxious about is “all in focus” – a combination of all the sharp parts of the light field picture into a single, flat exposure.
Lytro has confirmed that all in focus will be possible within the Lytro Desktop software by the end of the year.
Developer Nirmal J Patel didn’t want to wait, and wrote a small python script to create “all in focus” pictures from Lytro .lfp files himself: Continue reading
We recently showed you how to extract all the available information from .LFP files using Nirav Patel’s lfptools/lfpsplitter.
If you’re just interested in the compressed JPG stacks that are included in the -stk.lfp files (the files that get uploaded for web viewing), developer Mark Scappini has a more convenient tool for you:
Scappini used lfptools and the supplied information to create Lytro.Net, a .NET based Graphical User Interface which helps Windows Users extract Metadata and the processed JPEGs from Lytro .LFP files.
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While Lytro’s desktop software is nice and easy to use, you may want to have a deeper look into the LightField Pictures you’ve created with your own Lytro LightField camera.
The first person to reverse-engineer the Lytro .LFP File Format and make the results available, was Nirmal Patel.
He also gives insight into the .LFP file format:
The file itself is formatted as follows. First, a header:
# magic 12 byte header (LFP)
89 4C 46 50 0D 0A 1A 0A 00 00 00 01
# 4 byte length (0, since there is nothing in this section)
00 00 00 00After this are a number of sections.
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