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Phone Camera Microscope

WRITING / DRAWING
Sharpie fine point marker.
I was quite surpised to discover the tip is hemispherical. 
Felt chisel-tip calligraphy pen. 
Ballpoint pen.
Mechanical pencil & lead. .05mm.
Wide felt marker. Indigo.
Wax pen / china marker.
Felt marker. Yellow.
Pencil shavings. Blue color is the ink printed on the pencil's shaft.
STUDIO EPHEMERA
Cat-5 ethernet cable.
Apple ear buds.
Staple.
X-acto blade.
 
Glitter paper.
Type from customizable stamp set.
Foam core.
EDIBLES
Strawberry.
Banana.
Lemon.
Almond from trail mix.
Golden raisin from trail mix.
Raisin from trail mix.
THE COFFEE RITUAL
Industrial coffee filter.
Sugar.
Powdered creamer.
Styrofoam cup.
THE MICROSCOPE
MICROSCOPE
This is the device I built to shoot all of the above images. A cd jewel case cover serves as my phone platform, and holds the lens through which the images are taken. The distance of the subject's platform below can be adjusted depending on the size of the object. The LED light shown is used sparingly to give highligts on a dark subject. 
Phone Camera Microscope
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Phone Camera Microscope

Sometimes we underestimate what our camera phones are capable of. As a child, I would shoot things on plastic cameras, with plastic lenses and 35 Read More

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