DIY Macro Photography with Disposable Camera
Well, I have told you that I have been playing around with a disposable camera, and this is not the project I have been working on. The one I have been working on uses a flash, this is just a fun side project that came from my discoveries of the many uses of a disposable camera. Anyway, I have been playing with the lens from one of these cameras, a Kodak Max, outdoor camera, without a flash. I discovered if you look through the lens, that it would act like a jeweler’s loupe. I have a loupe that I got when I was buying a diamond engagement ring. Anyway, this lens works exactly the same way, so you could use this project to make your own 10x loupe. Just look through the lens, and hold the object close to it.
Anyway, back to the macro photography. After playing with the lens as a loupe, I decided to stick it on the end of my Canon 10D lens, and see if it would work for macro photography. It did work, not great, but it does work. It is about what you would expect from a cheap plastic lens, but I have had fun with the results. You can see some pics at the end of this How-To.
Lets get started. First grab that old Kodak Max without flash disposable camera that you never developed the film for. Now, as long as you have shot all of the film, you will not ruin anything. The film is in a canistor, like normal film.
Look on the side of the cameras, and you will see a small clasp. These are on both sides, and there are two clasps under the sticker on the top and bottom. Find these, and pry them open with your fingernail, or a small screwdriver. The back should come off first, and then remove the inner piece from the front cover. Take the film, and get it developed.
You can see the inner piece in the above picture. What you need to do is find how the lens assembly is attached, and take a small screwdriver and pry it off. (Not the grey part, which holds the lens on, I am talking about the black assembly).
You can see the shutter and spring in this above picture. You can remove them.
Above you see the shutter, and spring removed. Now, a disposable camera has about an F11 aperature, this will be too small for our macro photography. All you have to do is drill out this hole with a 1/4 inch drill bit. Once you have done that, you can re-attach the lens assembly. I also removed the unecessary gears, and mechanisms. I broke off the film storage compartment, where you found the plastic spool. I did this just to make it smaller.
Now, find your own way to attach the inner piece to your camera lens. Scotch tape works fine for a temporary fix. Actually, I did the below pictures with my Canon 50 mm 1.8 aperature lens, but you get the idea. Note, that I have a UV filter on my lens. I do not want to scratch the lens, or the UV filter for that matter, so be really careful. You don’t want to ruin your nice digital camera lens. Now, put the disposable lens on your digital camera, and get really really close to the subject you are taking a pic of. Put your digital camera lens on like 1.8 aperature, and you focus by moving the entire camera closer, or farther away from the subject. Be really still, and turn on your flash, and you can get some decent photos. Nothing fantastic, but it is about what I expected.
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That’s really cool! I did some macro photography with a disposable digital camera, but it was a lot easier- I just had to unscrew the lens almost all the way to get up really close, with a tiny focal length.
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You could do that. I was not aware of flipping a lens around, but I see that it would work. The point of this is that it is fun, and would work with any camera. The only digital Camera that I have is a 10D. But this would even work with a webcam. It is just to play with.
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[...] I have been looking at mods and hacks for a while now, and I always save them when I see something cool. I have done several DIY projects using a disposable camera, and so they have always peaked my interest. I decided to take all of the mods that I have seen over the last few years and make a top ten list of what I think are the coolest mods for a disposable camera. These hacks are in no particular order. 10. Macro photography with Disposable Camera This is something I did a while back while working on a project of mine. I actually stumbled upon it. It is nothing special, and the pictures are not even that great, but the point was to me at least was that it worked, and it was cool. You just take the lens off of a disposable camera and place it in front of your lens, and then move close to an object until it is in focus and take a picture. 9. Grafitti Light This is a project that I believe I found from Makezine a while back, and I just saved it. It inspired my flash slave. This project makes an automatic timer circuit that charges the flash, and then flashes it repetitively. This guy made a stencil that says a message, “no war” in this case, and places the flash behind the stencil shining through the lens. I am convinced that I can use this concept to make a slide projector, and have worked on it, but I need a bright light source and finally gave up. 8. RFID Zapper This project was big a few years back, but I never paid much attention to it. I don’t have any reason to zap RFID tags, and I actually could not tell even if I did zap one. This project is cool though, and basically sends out a large electromagnetic wave to zap them. Don’t get your ipod too close. 7. Disposable Camera Flash Slave This project is one of my own creations. I really like photography, and know the values of an external flash slave. It can allow the photographer to do a lot of neat things with the lighting. To buy one is expensive, so I decided to make my own. It has a photocell detecting light, and has a microcontroller that charges the flash for you, and then gets everything ready. When the camera sees an external flash, it fires the disposable camera adding light during the exposure. You can even take a picture of the flash going off. [...]
JUST A GOOD ADVISE:
IF YOU EVER USE A DISPOSABLE CAMERA FOR YOUR landscape photos MAKE SURE THAT THE FLASH IS ON
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you could probably achieve better results if you were to take the lens off an SLR and hold it backwords on the camera
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