Macro attachment from a DVD lens crafting
- With the collimator lens of a DVD drive footage from mobile phone cameras or cheap digital cameras improve.
- The lens improved especially in close-UPS (macro shooting) the sharpness. For everyday use the essay self-made is suitable, but rather less.
- You have a few minutes, an old DVD-drive and the joy of Tinkering, you can get to your camera quickly pimp.
- Note: The lens you will only find in the DVD drives of computers. In CD drives, the lens is not installed. The drive is to the Expansion useless.
Step 1: run DVD-drive to expand
You have expanded the drive already, you can skip this step.
- Screw on your Computer, and disconnect the two plug-in connection of the connected cable.
- The drive is also secured with two screws. This you need to remove it yet.
- The drive to expand, you need to push it on most computers out to the front. To do this, you need to remove the front bezel of the drive or the whole computer.
Step 2: Write and read head expand
- First remove the screws on the drive. Now it should leave the cover slightly open.
- In the center you see a wide, flat cable. Lift up the fastening with a knife or a small screwdriver and remove the cable. Alternatively, you may also cut.
- Now the main Board can be found. Then, you search for the Write and read head.
- This component is attached to a rod, so that it can move back and forth. Depending on the drive, you can pry the component simple out, several screws or with violence out of the break.
Step 3: Macro lens find and remove
- They have expanded the unit of the read and write head, can you find outside and within a plurality of lenses and mirrors.
- The requested Macro lens is usually located in the center of the component. To do this, you need to Unscrew, depending on the drive, the trim, or break.
- You can recognize the lens has a small round shape. Whether you have discovered the right lens, you will notice, as follows: Hold the lens about 5 cm in front of an object. Then you can detect a strong magnification.
Step 4: Macro-lens mounted on the camera
- The Macro lens must be centrally positioned on the lens of the camera. Even small shifts worsen the effect.
- The easiest way to the lens with two strips of Scotch tape to attach. A bottom, a top. The center of the lens must remain free.
In the next practical tip we show you how to Depth of field with the camera of the Smartphone to create.
