Being Mark Cohen

Friends at work told me about this neat trick where you extract the lens from a CD drive and you “mount” the lens on a mobile phone to make a macro lens. I thought it sounded interesting, and after a lot of scrounging I got a drive off my neighbour. It’s not as easy as it sounds to get the lens out, you really have to dig for it. But once it’s out it works brilliantly. Of course the focal length is fixed so you have to move forwards and backwards until the focal plane is where you want it in the picture. Here are a few pictures I took with my phone tonight. I have an incase slider case on my iphone, and I mounted the lens inside the case. if you keep the lens intact when you remove it, it will have protruding bits on opposite edges. these fit neatly into the lens hole in the slider case. Yet another example of photography being fun without an SLR