How to use a drop of water to give your smartphone camera a macro lens

How to use a drop of water to give your smartphone camera a macro lens:

If you want a simple and quick way to seriously enhance the magnification on your smartphone camera, you don’t need to buy expensive add-ons. Just a steady hand and a single drop of water and let science do the rest.

The drop of water has to be tiny and fit pretty much perfectly on the camera lens, aim for a droplet between 1/4 and 1/2 a centimeter wide, just enough to fit on the lens but not go over its border. You’ll want the droplet to be as circular as possible too, otherwise you’ll end up with strange edge effects. I managed with a finger tip but it’s generally easiest to use the end of a pen or pencil to apply such a tiny water drop.

As you can see, once you’ve mastered the technique, it works perfectly, bringing out incredible detail in your macro photos:


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