Home made Super Macros mobile phone camera

[Ol]

Saw this on t’internet and thought I’d give it a try.. the theory is that you take a lens from a CD player and place it over your mobile phone camera lens and it magnifies the image…

- Took apart an old DVD player that was lying about in the garage and removed the lens / mechanism:
- When I carefully (i.e with a big screwdriver and some brute force) removed the lens I punched a hole in the sticky part of a post-it note to hold the lens to the phone
- Stuck it on the back of my phone (Nokia X6)
- That’s it !

Photo's of process:

Mechanism:
https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/22092010862.jpg

Lens:
https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/22092010856.jpg

Lens in post-it note:
https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/23092010880.jpg


£1 coin without the home made lens, it’s about as closely zoomed in as possible without going blurry :

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/23092010879.jpg

And here’s one with the lens on : actually not bad !

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/23092010877.jpg

Couple more with the lens – First one can be seen on the very first picture above, it’s the little cog at the bottom of the mechanism:

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/22092010871.jpg

And this is a bit of solder from the side of the white plastic bit origionally holding the lens:

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/22092010860.jpg



All in all – a bit pointless, but worked ok and killed half an hour… bit o’ fun!
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[Fisty]

That's awesome!

Im gonna go butcher some technology and have a go.
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[Vinyardo]

Good job

I tried to do this once, but all I ended up with was some cuts on my finger and a phone covered in glue...
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[woll]

oooo looks quite good, quality is a bit lacking but its a mobile lol.
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[Frost]

Should have fitted the laser to your phone.

[dodsi]

To have a mobile phone with a frickin' laser beam on it's Aerial?

[Frost]

Nah where the camera is. When people ask why you're taking their picture hurts you can tell them it's just the red eye reduction.

[Ol]

[Frost]

I'm sure you could find a tiny transformer that would do it. Problem is that fitting anything inside a phone case is near impossible.