DIY Cheap “Macro” Cell Phone Photography

I needed to show my boss a component that was fried on a board. He is an elderly gentleman, so his eye site is not so good. So I thought I would take a photo of the bad part and show him on the large display on my computer. All I had to take the photo was my cell phone. I thought to myself, what if I put my eye loop up to the lens and use it to magnified the image.  Bingo!

Now the trick is to zoom in on your camera and put the loop over the lens, more zoom means more macro, but its gets a little grainy.

A set of eye loops at Harbor Fright is about $5.