Have about $10 and 20 minutes? You could be photographing cells with your smartphone the same day, as well as be the hero of young children and your geeky friends alike! See how this creative photographer created his own DIY iPhone Macro Lens Stand.
Turn Your Smartphone Into a Digital Microscope for Macro Photography
Materials required for the DIY iPhone Macro Lens Stand:
- 3x 4 ½” x 5/16” carriage bolts
- 9x 5/16” nuts
- 3x 5/16” wing nuts
- 5x 5/16” washers
- ¾” x 7” x 7” plywood — for the base
- ⅛” x 7” x 7” plexiglass — for the camera level (stand)
- ⅛” x 3” x 7” plexiglass — for the specimen level
- laser pointer focus lens
LED click light (for backlit specimens)
Tools Required for this DIY iPhone Macro Lens Stand:
- Drill
- Assorted bits
- Ruler
Sample Images for the DIY iPhone Macro Lens Stand
I can totally see this going larger scale for your DSLR and getting really creative macro photography.
What ideas does a build like this inspire?
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Nice article.
Great technique. I love the idea of a microscope magnification for a smart phone.
Really cool. I am glad I was brave and supported enough to be the only girl in shop class at my junior high school so I can make these. I would love to use them in outreach programs. Since almost all high schoolers and some middle schoolers have cell phones this would be easy to add a microscope into a the curriculum. And then bringing that microscope outside of the classroom for explorations and doing science. I imagine looking at macro invertebrates with it.
That’s super cool and very geeky. This would be a fun activity in a high school classroom!
I am a medical scientist and we have also mastered taking photos down our microscopes with IPhone . Once you master the focusing technique the results amazing!!!