{"id":5606,"date":"2014-06-26T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2014-06-26T16:03:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T21:03:14","slug":"potd-cicada-iphone-closeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=5606","title":{"rendered":"POTD: Cicada Closeup with an iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5607\" style=\"width: 523px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/140610-Cicada-iP-6601-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5607\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5607\" title=\"17 year Cicada\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/140610-Cicada-iP-6601-w7.jpg\" alt=\"17 Year Cicada\" width=\"513\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">17 Year Cicada Closeup<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was my good fortune to be in Iowa for the peak of the 17 Year Cicada &#8220;emergence&#8221;. It was amazing. It was also unbelievably noisy. If you stood under a cicada filled tree (they prefer some trees to others), you could barely hear well enough to have a conversation with a friend standing two feet away.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The above photo is a full frame (uncropped) closeup taken with an iPhone (resized for the web). You can&#8217;t focus this close with an unaided iPhone so I used the closeup lens on an Olloclip adapter which clips on the iPhone over the lens.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5608\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/140610-Cicada-eye-iP-6601b-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5608\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5608\" title=\"17 year Cicada\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/140610-Cicada-eye-iP-6601b-w7.jpg\" alt=\"Cicada eye, cropped from the full size image.\" width=\"700\" height=\"671\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cicada eye, cropped from the full size image.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At magnifications this high the depth of field (near to far apparent sharpness) is very shallow so most of the cicada is out of focus. But the Olloclip is a very sharp closeup adapter. In the full size original image the individual cells of the cicada&#8217;s compound eye are clearly visible.<\/p>\n<p>To get this kind of magnification, the Olloclip adapter on the iPhone needs to be about 1\/2 inch from your subject. If you are more than an inch away, you won&#8217;t be able to focus. You need a non-skittish, cooperative subject to get this close. (Best not to try this with rattlesnakes.) You also need a lot of light, and you need to avoid casting the iPhone&#8217;s shadow on your subject.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to do ultra closeup photos with an iPhone, I highly recommend getting an <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/About\/astore\/astore.html\">Olloclip adapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Data: iPhone 4s with Olloclip closeup adapter. 4.3 mm focal length\u00c2\u00a0 (in 35mm: 35.0 mm). 1\/40 sec,\u00c2\u00a0 f\/2.4,\u00c2\u00a0 ISO 50.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/About\/astore\/astore.html\">Olloclip adapters for the iPhone 4, 4S, iPhone 5, and 5S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olloclip.com\/\">Olloclip site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was my good fortune to be in Iowa for the peak of the 17 Year Cicada &#8220;emergence&#8221;. It was amazing. It was also unbelievably noisy. If you stood under a cicada filled tree (they prefer some trees to others), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=5606\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-accessories","category-photo-gear","category-photographs","category-using-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5619,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/5619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}