Trying out a mobile phone "Microscope Magnifier"

[andy]

Saw this recommended on a Youtube channel about microscopes and I think it was about £8 when I ordered it off Amazon. Figured it might be handy to have in a jacket pocket when I'm out walking dogs and see something too small to get anything useful with a mobile phone.

Samsung A40 was at 3x digital zoom for both pics....

No supplementary lens:


A springtail too small to ID by eye or that pic.

With supplementary lens:

Hardly the last word in IQ and the subject was moving, which didn't help, but I can at least identify it as Dicyrtomina saundersi.

Same species photographed with a Canon MP-E on a 7D...

[dreampolice]

My daughter uses a similar type of microscope lens on her iPhone. She has used it for lo-fi filming of mainly worms for an art video. As you say IQ isn't best ever but it suited the purpose.

[andy]

Dec 28, 2022 16:34:02 GMT dreampolice said:

My daughter uses a similar type of microscope lens on her iPhone. She has used it for lo-fi filming of mainly worms for an art video. As you say IQ isn't best ever but it suited the purpose.

Aye, good enough to satisfy curiosity. If it had been a species I didn't recognise I could always go back with proper gear. 

Sim card for my new phone has arrived so I'll have a play with it on that too. It, allegedly, has a macro camera.