Geek Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iphone-macro-lens.jpg" alt="iPhone Macro Lens" title="iphone-macro-lens" width="620" height="453" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28326" /></p> <p>Want a free instant macro lens for your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> camera? Carefully apply a tiny drop of water to the lens, flip the iPhone over, and voila, you can suddenly take extreme close ups of just about anything. I know that sounds a little weird, but it works, and the results are fairly impressive.</p> <p>The drop of water has to be tiny and fit pretty much perfectly on the camera lens, aim for a droplet between 1/4 and 1/2 a centimeter wide, just enough to fit on the lens but not go over its border. You’ll want the droplet to be as circular as possible too, otherwise you’ll end up with strange edge effects. I managed with a finger tip but it’s generally easiest to use the end of a pen or pencil to apply such a tiny water drop. </p> <p>Here are a few sample images of extreme closeups of a $10 bill and another iPhone screen, taken with a good old iPhone 4 and a water droplet on the lens: <span id="more-28324"></span> <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iphone-water-macro.jpg" alt="iPhone Water Drop Macro Lens" title="iphone-water-macro" width="620" height="463" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28327" /></p> <p>As you can see in the dollar bill images, the quality is good enough to see fibers in the paper and detailed ink lines.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iphone-macro-shot.jpg" alt="iPhone Macro Shot" title="iphone-macro-shot" width="620" height="381" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28328" /></p> <p>You can also make out places where ink bled, something that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iphone-macro-lens.jpg" alt="iPhone Macro Lens" title="iphone-macro-lens" width="620" height="453" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28326" /></p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iphone-water-macro-shot.jpg" alt="iPhone Water Macro Shot" title="iphone-water-macro-shot" width="620" height="436" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28333" /></p> <p>Using the water droplet macro lens to take a picture of another iPhones screen was equally impressive, clearly showing pixel level details.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iphone-screen-macro.jpg" alt="iPhone Screen Macro Shot with Water Droplet" title="iphone-screen-macro" width="620" height="437" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28329" /></p> <p>I got the idea from <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2012/03/12/transform-your-iphone-into-a-microscope-just-add-water/">Scientific American</a>, who calls it a “microscope”, which may be a bit of a stretch, though they did take some pretty interesting pictures of a few bugs and plants. </p> <p>Give it a try yourself, just be very careful with water on the iPhone, you don’t want to accidentally trigger the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/02/08/iphone-ipod-water-damage-sensor-locations/">water sensors</a> or damage the phone.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cDO5ckSznXy7H-2YAJPXnbUsYs4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cDO5ckSznXy7H-2YAJPXnbUsYs4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cDO5ckSznXy7H-2YAJPXnbUsYs4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cDO5ckSznXy7H-2YAJPXnbUsYs4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=01-vAwZzWbM:_O4qHbGxBKI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=01-vAwZzWbM:_O4qHbGxBKI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=01-vAwZzWbM:_O4qHbGxBKI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=01-vAwZzWbM:_O4qHbGxBKI:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=01-vAwZzWbM:_O4qHbGxBKI:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=01-vAwZzWbM:_O4qHbGxBKI:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=01-vAwZzWbM:_O4qHbGxBKI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/01-vAwZzWbM" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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