Cellphone cameras are almost universal awful, but that shouldn’t stop you having some fun with them (and we don’t mean the kind of “fun” found on the Tokyo subway).
This splendid hack takes the lens out of a DVD player and turns your phone-cam into a macro phone-cam. First, dissect your DVD player and remove the lens. It’s designed to focus a laser, close-up to the disk, and it does a fine job with visible light, too. Step two: stick it in front of the camera lens and shoot. That’s it, although how quick and dirty you get is up to you: the article at DIY Photography suggests gaffer tape for a proper ghetto version, or a card frame for an easier-to-remove mod.
Either way, this is a great use for a dead drive, and easy, too. Just unplug the DVD player from the power first.
Super Macro Your Cellphone Camera With A DVD Lens [DIY Photography]
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