A video demonstration of the iPhone macro lens

by Colin Devroe on March 21st, 2008

Immediately following my post about the iPhone macro lens my site nearly “went down” because of using up too much bandwidth. Shortly after that people were wondering why I hadn’t created a video demonstration of how it works.

Well, here it is.

Sorry for the quality of the video, it could have been better, but I wanted to do it quickly and so I used an old iSight I had laying around, sort of propped it up on my coin collector thingy, and, well, here is the result.

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I’m still anxious to create a wide-angle lens for the iPhone, I just haven’t found the right materials for doing so. I’ve toyed with a few things that I have laying around, and even rummaged through my brother-in-law’s basement to see if I could find something there. So far, no dice. If anyone has any suggestions, or knows of something someone else created, please share a link to that in the comments.

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11 Responses to “A video demonstration of the iPhone macro lens”

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  2. You should totally make this a product on the consumer market. If I had an iPhone I would buy it.

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  6. Beto said on 05/01/08 at 11:47 pm:

    Dude you should make this a little more pro-looking and patent it! I bet some people would be interested

  7. if you have an old loupe laying around, that works well too.

    http://www.justwhatisee.com

    great stuff devroe!

    G

  8. Frasze said on 09/14/08 at 3:26 pm:

    I just want to say good work^^
    I didnt have anything to do so i made my own.. (kindof) ^^’
    http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9673/img00023xz2.png <- Pic of the Lens it self

    Some shots i took ^^
    http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5259/img0003ou6.png
    http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5643/img00042ve4.png
    http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5986/img0001ap7.png

    Credits to Colin Decroe to comeup with this ^^

  9. Frasze said on 09/14/08 at 3:28 pm:

    gah sorry for spelling your name wrong :/ Devroe*

  10. Thanks Frasze! Your lens came out great!

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Hi, I'm Colin Devroe the Technology Evangelist for Viddler. I enjoy writing, photography, wine, and food. (more)

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