In yesterday’s lesson, we used the Photojojo macro lens to take close-ups of small subjects. Today, we’re going to use the exact same lens but with the wide angle ring in place. As a reminder, the wide/macro lens has two parts that look like this when separated:
When the two parts are screwed together, lens looks like this (the one in the middle):
If you still have them separated, reattach the wide angle ring for this lesson. The lens will stick to the metal ring around your iPhone lens via a magnet. Refer to Lesson 37 for more details about attaching the lens.
The iPhone lens is quite wide to begin with. It’s a 4mm lens, which helps to compensate for its very small sensor when you’re trying to go big. However, sometimes it’s still not wide enough.
The Photojojo wide angle lens takes your built-in lens from 4mm to 2.68mm, putting more stuff in the frame when the scene you’re shooting is really big. Here’s a side-by-side comparison of what you get without and with the wide-angle attachment:
Notice two side-effects. The corners of the image can get dark (called Vignetting) and objects around the edges of the photo start to bend. Sometimes those effects can be fun to play with, too.
Your Assignment: For an easy subject, try taking a picture from the corner of a room in your house. If you can stand on a chair, even better. Take the photo both with and without the wide angle attachment. Can you get the whole room in? Do you see both the ceiling and the floor in the photo? How much more do you see with the attachment? If possible, try the same experiment outside. Notice what happens to street lights and houses at the outside edges of the frame–you get a little reality bending with a lens this wide.
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