Ok update, I tried Steve's trick with my little Kodac easy-share 14.5Mp camera through a Bausch and Lomb 7x eye loupe.  It worked very good in super macro mode <2" fixed focus, ok in macro mode, and so-so in normal zoom mode.   The camera automatically shifts modes so I had to play with it to get it to stay in normal zoom mode with the loupe.   Lighting was an issue as the iris was jammed way down using the flash, best was with no flash.   

Pat -

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 9:36 AM
To: 'TechNet E-Mail Forum'; Goodyear, Patrick
Subject: RE: [TN] NTC Cool things your cell phone can do...

Hi Patrick!

It should. My phone has a touch-screen and I'm able to view the shot in my screen and then just touch it to take the picture. I just didn't my phone could do that until I tried it...

We have a little Dino-lite digital microscope here and it's what I used to take the picture of the solder ball shorting the leads for Scott Post a week or so ago:

http://stevezeva.homestead.com/SolderBall.JPG

It works amazing well too.

Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Goodyear, Patrick
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 10:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Cool things your cell phone can do...

Thanks Steve for the information, wonder if it will work for other
cameras????    I found a cheap $40 40-200x microscope camera that is usb,
comes with it's own lighting supply, no software though, so unless you have
capture software might not be too useful.   Look online. 

pat

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Gregory
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 8:33 AM
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Subject: [TN] NTC Cool things your cell phone can do...

Hi All,

 

Read an article yesterday about an attachment that was being offered for Iphones that could position the phone camera into a microscope and take pictures for around $60 -75.

 

There was a comment to the article saying why pay the money for that when you can make your cell phone into a microscope? So I was intrigued. I took a 5X Bausch and Lomb eye-loop and held it over the lens of my BlackBerry Torch, and by golly it works!

 

http://stevezeva.homestead.com/CellPhone1.jpg

 

http://stevezeva.homestead.com/CellPhone2.jpg

 

Just some useless information that I thought I'd pass on for Friday. 

 

Steve



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