Cassiopeia

PhotoTachometery! (For my non-engineering friends, that’s not a real term)

Anyway, life at a startup is great. We shell out a couple grand for equipment but most of the time use it for non work-related projects. I guess you can say that I’m on google time.

So, I’ve currently held a Tachometer hostage:

Yup. I’m not giving this baby up for a while.

The fate of the Universe was decided in two minutes. But me? .. It took me an hour to drive to the hills, another hour to get this shot, not to mention, an entire week of patiently waiting for the moon to leave the sky enough to capture this shot.  By any standard, I’m unremarkable. So the only thing I could think of to do today was to capture something remarkable.

And here it is:

Don’t lie– you’d kill for great macro images on your iPhone.  But fret not, as there exists a fairly simple hack.

Because the point of focus is beyond the image, we will need a positive lens to pull the point of focus towards us. Typically, any double- or plano- convex lens will do. These are very easy to find as they exist in throwaway cameras.  In it, you will find a series of simple tiny lenses which you can put in front of your phone’s camera for optimal focus.

Here’s the best part though… I keep a few lenses in the coin section of my wallet so that I can have instant access to good macro images wherever I go.  That makes me “cool” right?  No? Well, wait until you see my before and after images:

So there you have it. I’m cool.