Attaching SLR Lenses to an iPhone
Photographer and Engineer Bhautik Joshi came up with a nifty way to attach a real SLR lens to camera phones. and when I say attach, I mean optically, not just wrapping both in tons of gaffers tape.
Using not much more than old CD lenses, cardboard and some sticky putty, Bhautik was able to construct a mechanism. Now, we had a project on the site before where we combined a DVD lens with an iPhone to create a super macro cameraphone, but Bhautik takes it to the next step.
Once the CD lenses are attached, comes the fun part, adding an SLR lens.
The detailed step by step tutorial includes everything you'll need to know. Starting by removing the lens from your old DVD, through fitting a lens to making the phone to lens connection.
The images you get has a really distinct quality to them.
Read all about it on Captains Nod's blog. (And while you are at it, check out his other DIY tutorials, the Plungercam 2, the DIY ringflash using the inbuilt flash and the weird and creepy Quake Paper Models.
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Yes, that makes indefinitely
Yes, that makes indefinitely more sense than getting an entry-level DSLR body for a third of the price of an iPhone.
Mmm... chromatic abberation,
Mmm... chromatic abberation, looks cool
Its called vignetting not Chromatic ab
Its called vignetting not Chromatic ab
I meant the way the colors
I meant the way the colors seperated a little toward the edges of things photographed.
Hours of fun to be had...
Need I say more??? :)
Hour of fun to be had with this I think.
Cheers,
Glyn
I took it one step further...
I turned my Droid into a macro camera.
The images remind me of my
The images remind me of my old Holga
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