Pringles Can Macro Photography

GW's face from a quarter

Thanks to this guy, I went and built a super-cheap macro lense out of some spare camera parts and a used can of jalepeno Pringles®. (Stay tuned here for future macro photos.)

To demonstrate the powa of the Pringles Can System, first, we look at the ® symbol on some crap-ass light from Ikea in figures one and two.

figure one

figure two

This was taken at a minumum setting, meaning a 70mm lense flipped backwards at infinite focus...

Next we play with a quarter, shown above, and just for scale, figure three is presented.

figure three

The robot in figure three's face was the next experiment, shown here:

(Stay tuned here for future macro photos.)

By The Professor at Jan 6 2006 - 12:49am | diy | login or register to post comments

Cool!

Hi!

I'm the guy who wrote that macro project - I'm impressed by your results with the macro lens!

Thanks for sharing,

Haje / Photocritic.org

By Haje (not verified) at February 4, 2006 - 4:46am | login or register to post comments

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