iphone macro lens

[Giglio324]

so a snowboard website i get emails from sends me one regarding this iphone accesory. it is an iphone macro lens, this intrigued me but thought ah it probaly is to good to be true. i did find 1 example on the olloclip website of someone that snapped a shot of a paly. i was pretty impressed to be honest
this is the olloclip macro lens
http://www.boardparadise.com/Olloclip_3_in_1_Macro_Lens_for_iPhone_5_5S_p/sum-oc-eu-iph5-m3-bb.htm
there is an example in the photogaller of a paly photographed
http://www.olloclip.com/#.
what do you think. worth a try for 70$

 

[Giglio324]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2173508
check out these shots, i think im sold to be honest.

 

[Petercar (RIP Dec 2017)]

i got my kit from the cellshop online. its in quebec ...http://ca.cellphoneshop.net/4in1lens.html

 

[davesolo29]

I will be getting one.  Wow!!


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[curiousphil]

I've got one, cool toy but it has a 16mm focal length.  That means anything greater than 16mm (1.6cm) away is a complete blur.  I was unable to capture anything in my tank except for microfauna on the glass.  I did take a cool macro video of pods on the glass though!!  I read that the people taking coral photos are holding the frags right up to the glass.  This is true at least for the eBay kits, I don't know about the olloclip.

[edit] Looks like the same limitation for the olloclip - focal distance of 12mm for the 15x lens and 16mm for the 10x lens.  From their website:

The macro lens is set perfectly within the olloclip and will be flush with the clip when the Wide Angle lens is removed.Place the olloclip back on your iPhone 4 and move right in on the subject – literally, only a centimeter or so away. This results in some spectacular close-up images.

 

[reeffreak]

You can make your own. I took the little lens from and DVD drive and bam works like a charm

 

[reeffreak]

Both from the lens from a broken DVD drive