Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Learn how to turn your smartphone into a microscope

Today, fashion is aging and often ruin the way people have seen the world closer through their smartphones. Some people adore and some people hate.


Personally, I do not consider the act basically shooting poorly embellish photos taken with Instagram, picplz, etc., through dozens of filters "enfeiadores" - even if it is ultra fun. But that is personal and photography goes well beyond merely opinions.

Professional equipment for macro images for example, are usually more expensive, require a bit more knowledge about photography, as well as a good result is a direct product of the use of proper technique and not to invent a lot.

But who says you need to spend much to go even beyond the macro. How about you use your smartphone and try this image of a micro focus? Yes, that right there.

How? Free.

Important: If you repeat the experiment below, do not tell me then with tearful email saying that your smartphone's camera stopped working because water has gotten inside. Yes, that's right. H2O. Water.

That said, let the list of equipment you need:

A smartphone with a camera minimally decent
A drop of water
In the image below you will see a simple pen with a drop placed on its end.

The reason you use a - or any other object capable of positioning the drop on the lens of the smartphone - is quite simple: you need to put it there with the smartphone face down, already in position to take the picture.


Or, if you want you can try a dropper over the lens and then spend the rest of the month trying to turn the smartphone to shoot.

The next step is to take the picture. The image should come into focus with approximately 1.5 cm distance between the lens and the object you want to capture. It may be even closer, depending on the lens of your smartphone.

A detail is that the drop evaporates very quickly, so be practical and brief. The images below were taken with my iPhone 4, whose camera is there great things in the kitchen of my office without any treatment and with natural light.

I wonder what could come out of a Nokia N8 (Carl Zeiss) or with something other than 5 megapixels and all hipsterhype that can exist in a single device.

It would be nice if you sent links to the results he could obtain.

If you decide to try.