Go macro with your iPhone; and the largest iPhone flash you’ll never use
By Will Park on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 11:30 AM PST In Apple, iPhone
There are all manner of iPhone camera hacks and attachments out there, but nothing as quite as home-brew as this macro-lens hack. Armed with a dead camera’s lens package, a bit of tape, and some paper-clip creativity, Colin Devroe conjured up this iPhone macro-lens camera attachment from scratch. The macro-lens hack purportedly takes decent up-close shots, unless you’re in a low-light situation.
In which case, Colin Devroe has also hacked up a great iPhone flash. It’s great because it’s huge and powerful, not because anyone would ever use it or because its pretty. It’s the biggest, baddest iPhone flash that you’ll likely never use.
Low-light, macro, zoom, with the right hack, you can make your iPhone camera do anything. Well, almost…
[Via: cdevroe]
You do know that there are phones with flash and macro capabilities, right? I like the iPhone just fine for what it does, but let’s not bastardize the phone with ghetto mods to give it functionality it was never supposed to have.
…I was reading that post and hoping that it would end with a “just kidding.” That thing looks horrible, and it makes me shake my head in disbelief by how sad some people are…they really want the iphone to be great. Keep dreaming -