Macro Lens from a Pringles Can

isharq writes "In a cool little feat of extremely low-tech hardware hacking, Photocritic has created a macro lens out of a Pringles can. According to the article: "with less than £1 worth of equipment, a little bit of sweat and tears, you can build yourself a surprisingly good macro lens". The results are astonishing."

Comments

Astonishingly.. lame

[Ancient_Hacker]

So all you need is:

• A camera.
  • A SLR.
  • That you don't mind getting wrecked.
  • Due to getting Pringle-bits in the mechanical bits.
  • Or due to getting Pringle-salt in the mechanical bits.
  • With a removable lens.
  • But not a lens scheme that telemeters f-stop or focus or depth-of-field indicators or flash timer.
  • And not an old Retina-Reflex with the shutter built into the lens.
• And you can stand putting duct-tape on a piece of precision equipment.
• And you don't already have a lens with the twist-to-macro feature.
• And you don't mind wrecking the lens when it falls off the end of the tube.
• And you don't mind the idiocy of using a tube with reflective insides when optimally it should be just the opposite.

Otherwise, it's a swell idea.