by "RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
Published 08/26/2017 at 11:27
by "RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
Published 08/26/2017 at 11:27
Tags: Phonelopnik
STARS: 5
Background novel: As many of you know, I like to use my phone to take quick snapshots of interesting cars I see on my travels. As many of you also know, I used to use a crappy flip phone up until a few months ago and the camera in that was horrible.
I now have a much better (read: outdated Android 4.4.2, but better than a flip phone) smartphone - a Samsung Galaxy Core LTE, but the camera in this was always really terrible because, when I bought it, the lens was scratched to hell and, as you’ve seen, most my pics are really blurry when taken with my phone... :/
Another issue with my phone, was that when I first got it, the back battery cover was always falling off because it was really worn out. I had actually ordered a new back cover which included a whole screen surround and everything off eBay a while ago. I didn’t need the rest of it, so it’s just been gathering dust on a shelf in my workshop.
Long story short, this morning I got tired of how crappy the pictures were so I decided to take the back casing from the case that I bought on eBay to see if I could pop the brand new, infinitely clearer lens out of it and put THAT lens into the current back casing for the phone. The back battery cover I bought from eBay fits my phone fine but the back casing was actually for a slightly different model and that casing doesn’t fit my current phone...but I figured the lens would.
Anyway, I am pysched as I managed to do it and the difference is NIGHT AND DAY.
TL:DR, new phone cam lens = Happy RallyDarkstrike! :)
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/26/2017 at 13:08, STARS: 1
Well done. There seems to be a tendency to overexpose the right side of the photo. That may be an issue with the camera and not the lens, but it’s obviously considerably better. That looks a lot like our old cats. We had brother and sister tabbies, Baxter and Chessie, but they died about 10 years ago. Haven’t had another cat since.
"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
08/26/2017 at 15:44, STARS: 1
I would miss her immensely if she were gone :)
As for the overexposure in the second pic, that’s probably actually not overexposure but the fact the bright sun is just coming through the screen door from that angle. :)