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Go macro with your iPhone; and the largest iPhone flash you’ll never use

Categories: Apple, iPhone
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 11:30 AM

iPhone camera macro lens hackThere 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]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • JonnyBruha

    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.

  • newtype2011

    …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 -