Ian Ellison
posted this on July 20, 2012 07:03 pm
The simple answer is yes, you can use your Lytro camera with any number of computers, both Mac and Windows interchangeably.
However, there are several key things to be aware of in order to prevent difficulties down the road:
IMPORTANT: If you realize this soon enough after it happens, you can just backup the more complete Lytro Library to your other computer(s)-- libraries are interchangeable between Mac and Windows. However, If this happens more than once, such that your Mac ends up containing sets of pictures A and C, while your Windows machine contains picture sets B and D, and the camera has had any of those pictures deleted from the camera, then right now there won't be any way to combine all those pictures into one library. In that case you'd have to switch between two (or more) Lytro Libraries manually in order to see all of those pictures on the same machine.
IMPORTANT: Since pictures uploaded to Lytro Web do not contain all of the data in the original light field picture, be very judicious about deleting pictures from Lytro Desktop on any computer, whether they're up on Lytro Web or not. Also, be aware that even in data-compressed Lytro Web format, it is not currently possible to download pictures from Lytro Web at all, nor to import pictures into Lytro Desktop individually.