A recent article on diyphotography.net talks about the awesome idea of taking apart an old DVD burner, and using the lens to take macro photos with your cell phone's camera. I just couldn't resist trying this myself, but all I had was an old CD burner (not DVD). Nevertheless, the lens did the job well, and the photos I was able to take with the camera in my Motorola RAZR V3xx (1.3mp) turned out pretty great:
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Aug 30 2009
September 1st, 2009 at 10:11 am
This is great idea! I am surely going to try it and see how this is like!Have a nice day!
January 19th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
I actually regularly do this with the eyepiece lens from a cheap pair of binoculars, blu-tak-ed onto the zoom lens of my stills camera. Works amazingly well, you can even use the zoom for even more magnification. I often have to take engineering photos of electronic parts I can barely see; this is a hell of a lot quicker than using the "proper" camera!