Here is a little usefull technique, that I found out about the other day.
I like to take really close-up pictures of different things, but when you have a small object in front of a distant background, the camera on my Nokia N79 is having a hard time focusing on the object itself. It simple doesn't fill up seeker, and the camera is focusing on the background.
This of course happens even though the camera is put on "near-photography".
And you can't get any closer, cause the object is then simply to close, for the camera to focus.
The photos comes out something like this.
(Photo: Martin Ove Christensen)Here is the trick. Simply use the digital zoom. I'm of course aware, that zooming is usually an "emergency only", since the quality takes a huge impact.
But when you're really close-up and nasty, it doesn't matter. You can actually make a really, really small object fill the entire seeker-field, making the camera put the focus right smack on. In this case, the body of the spider is about the size of my thumbnail.
Put short, you are able to stand so far from a very small object, that the camera can focus, but still make the object fill the seeker up, so that it becomes the cameras focus priority.
It comes out something like this. (Behold the nastyness)
(Photo: Martin Ove Christensen)This image is NOT cropped. This was what it actually looked like in the seeker.
The technique doesn't suddenly make Nokia-phones awesome close-up cameras of course, but it certainly helps alot.
The main problem is holding the phone as still as possible, as the photo gets shaking up pretty easy as the camera is fully zoomed in.
Check out even more close-up photos at picasaweb.google.com/mocove/makro
Thank you for reading.
- MOC
