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March 21st, 2008

A video demonstration of the iPhone macro lens

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

  1. Making a macro lens and a light for the iPhone | Hi, I’m Colin Devroe. Says:
    March 21st, 2008 at 11:35 am

    [...] Update March 21, 2008 — I’ve now recorded a video demonstration of the macro lens in action. [...]

  2. Jason Waldrip Says:
    March 21st, 2008 at 1:35 pm

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

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    March 21st, 2008 at 2:28 pm

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    March 21st, 2008 at 2:53 pm

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    March 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 am

    [...] schon kurz vorgestellt, jetzt zeigt er die doch beeindruckenden Ergebnisse seiner Bastelarbeit im Video. Als nächstes will er sich in Weitwinkelaufnahmen versuchen (gab’s auch hier schon mal). Wo [...]

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    March 23rd, 2008 at 9:02 am

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  7. Beto Says:
    May 1st, 2008 at 11:47 pm

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

  8. Greg Says:
    May 11th, 2008 at 12:20 am

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

    http://www.justwhatisee.com

    great stuff devroe!

    G

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