RayCornett
June 8th, 2014, 02:28 AM
Many of you may scoff at this but my cell phone does better macros than my normal camera which I use for professional shooting and such. I don't have a macro lens for it really.
Today I received this awesome little set of cell phone lenses to attach to my cell phone. Actually I attach them to my cell phone case using their magnetic disks.
The set comes with a fish eye lens as well as a macro lens and one other lens that connects to the macro lens to make pretty interesting wide angle shots.
I will get a lot of use out of the macro lens. Especially for pen photography. I am still getting used to it so I really only have one show worth image of one of my nibs, in natural light with the macro lens.
This is not a shot lit by studio type lights like some of my other stuff but look at how close in I can get.....You can see the wet ink inside the nibs breather hole.
I definitely recommend a tripod made for cell phones. I improvised for this shot. Laying my cell phone "camera side down" on top of compact flash memory card stacked on top of a tiny jar of silicone grease from fountainpensacs.com, then setting the camera to timer mode so I wasn't touching the phone to cause any shake blur, turned out to be just the right distance to photograph this nib.
The main drawback that I see immediately, though, is that all of the lenses are just wide enough to get in the way of your cell phone camera flash. So, maybe half of your image gets lit if you use the flash. I recommend other light sources such as lamps and such instead.
Today I received this awesome little set of cell phone lenses to attach to my cell phone. Actually I attach them to my cell phone case using their magnetic disks.
The set comes with a fish eye lens as well as a macro lens and one other lens that connects to the macro lens to make pretty interesting wide angle shots.
I will get a lot of use out of the macro lens. Especially for pen photography. I am still getting used to it so I really only have one show worth image of one of my nibs, in natural light with the macro lens.
This is not a shot lit by studio type lights like some of my other stuff but look at how close in I can get.....You can see the wet ink inside the nibs breather hole.
I definitely recommend a tripod made for cell phones. I improvised for this shot. Laying my cell phone "camera side down" on top of compact flash memory card stacked on top of a tiny jar of silicone grease from fountainpensacs.com, then setting the camera to timer mode so I wasn't touching the phone to cause any shake blur, turned out to be just the right distance to photograph this nib.
The main drawback that I see immediately, though, is that all of the lenses are just wide enough to get in the way of your cell phone camera flash. So, maybe half of your image gets lit if you use the flash. I recommend other light sources such as lamps and such instead.