Taking the Nokia Lumia 1020 to the macro level

We've got an interesting discussion going on over in the Windows Phone Central Forums nearly adapting the Nokia Lumia 1020 to macro photography.

Macro photography is close-up photography typically captured at life-size resolution and at really close distances. While the Nokia Lumia 1020 may not exist able to capture images at life size resolution, WPCentral reader AccentAE86 has constitute a way to heave the magnification of the 41MP PureView photographic camera past taping a close-upwards filter to the camera.

The filter magnifies the paradigm to pull in more particular and coupled with Nokia's zoom feature, the results can be fantastic. Striking the break to encounter a few of AccentAE86'southward macro shots and the macro prepare-up he's using.

AccentAE86 does not that in shooting macro with the Lumia 1020, y'all are challenged with the inability to stop down the lens for greater depth of field. You'll need to be a footling patient and may have to cull a improve bending to arroyo things to maximize what depth you have.

Now I've shot my fair share of macro photos over the years and while taping a filter to the front of your Lumia 1020's camera may not be the near conventional approach to macro photography, the finish product tin agree information technology'south own rather nicely.

You can share your thoughts on using the Nokia Lumia 1020 for macro photos here in this Windows Phone Cardinal Forums discussion. Only exist warned... the spider shot posted is ultra-creepy.

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