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May 21 2008

How to: Make close-up shots with your fixed-focus camera

Posted by Christian Titze in 6680, E-Series, E51, E65, E70, How To, N-Series, N70, N76, N77, N800, N81, N91, Nokia, Review

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Thanks to one of our readers I found a video over at YouTube in which a guy is showing us how to make macro-images with a phone, thats camera doesn’t have a autofocus.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ku8eIFj9_M&hl=en]

Since I don’t have such a “plastic-lens” which is as big as a creditcard I thought maybe you can do it with a normal loupe as well. So I searched our house after a loupe and thanks to my father who likes to collect stamps I successfully accomplished my search and found a great loupe.

I tested it with my E65 trialdevice from WOM World and it worked well. You will need to have some sort of magnifier and then hold it in front of your cellphones’ lens. The next thing is to capture the image and you will have a great close-up image on your mobile phone without a internal macro-mode.

Here some image samples:

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This method isn’t the best solution, but just imagine you can make close-up shots without a macro-mode. I think this is better than can’t make close-up images when you really need one.

Although this nokia is no longer available from many retailers, online retailers like http://www.dialaphone.co.uk still have a few in stock.

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  • http://pagina.no-ip.info Richardson (Vix)

    VERY, very, very nice post. I will to use this with my N76.

  • http://www.symbianworld.de Christian Titze

    Thanks man.

  • http://www.womworld.com/nokia/3371/e65-camera-%e2%80%93-macro-shots/ WOM World / Nokia » Blog Archive » E65 camera – macro shots

    [...] Christian Titze, writing on Symbian World, has found a video on that shows how to take a macro image using the camera of the E65. [...]

  • karmapolis

    The lens used in the video is from ultraoptix.com

  • http://www.blueunplugged.com/c.aspx?c=41057 Jabra

    Amazing tips thankyou so very much!!!

  • deen

    solving my prob!!!

  • http://xxamiirxx.mymobilesite.net xXAmiiRXx

    Crazy idea but it works!

  • rounak jain

    hey chris,
    i’ve been going through your tips since i got my e63……many of them seem funny but when i got down and did follow them, to my surprise they turn out to be 99% true……keep up the good work buddy……..

    Ron

  • m

    I tried this with my old Sony-Ericsson K530i and it worked.

  • sparsh

    hay guys i have a tips of nokia 5800, if you recive a call and you want silent cellphone quikly so just turn it front to back