Photographs Messing around with parts...

[Barbarian]

I was tearing down an old digital camera, and I found this little plastic lens in the pentaprism housing. It looked about the right power for the camera on my digital phone, so I taped it in place and tried it out:

Not bad for a hand-held shot in poor lighting.

 

[AirDancer]

Amazing, actually! Look at the detail of the hair. Incredible.

Thanks for sharing.... great job!

 

[agua.]

Have you seen the new gel microscope lenses ?

S

ilicone gel, a fine-tipped tool, a cover slip, and an oven are all that is needed to transform a regular smartphone camera into a microscope to produce high-resolution microscopic images, a researcher from the Australian National University (ANU) Research School of Engineering has discovered.

http://www.zdnet.com/anu-lens-turns-smartphone-cameras-into-microscopes-7000028727/

Some accident !

 

[Barbarian]

I went and looked them up. I'm going to see if I can duplicate that result. I'm a bit uncertain, since most lenses are basically sections of a sphere, and these gel lenses are parabolic. Aspheric lenses are notoriously hard to get right. I'm rebuilding a pantry right now, but when that's done, I'll see what I can do. Sounds fascinating. I'll need to get a nice secure frame to hold the phone for that kind of magnification. I've got an old steel frame for a projection microscope that might do the trick.

 

[agua.]

Cool post a pic if it works out.