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About the same time I was shopping for a magnifying glass, I discovered the very useful Camera Genius iPhone app and stumbled onto this unintended feature: using the camera zoom as a magnifier. I tried it on some tiny print medicine bottles, and (once I let it focus) it worked at least as well as a handheld magnifying glass. Plus, you can hold it at a slight angle to the subject: perfect for figuring out the tiny connector labels on the backs of computers or behind hard to reach audio gear. And you can take zoom in and take a snapshot for future reference.
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Use iPhone as magnifying glass
You can achieve the same effect with built-in features. Go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility and turn Zoom on. After that you can magnify ANY screen by double-tapping with three fingers (read other zoom actions in the "enable zoom" screen).
Use iPhone as magnifying glass
I don't have Accessibility on my iPhone, which is a 3G. As far as I can tell, this is only on the 3Gs model.
Use iPhone as magnifying glass
Virtually any kind of camera device with a zoom feature can be used that way both for visually impaires and in some situations when you forgot your glasses. There is nothing special about iPhone with this regards. [link:]http://websites-for-sale.e-unlimited.net
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You can use any digital camera with an LCD viewer and a zoom setting as a magnifier. There's nothing special about the iPhone's camera in that regard.
Use iPhone as magnifying glass
Dr. T,
What's interesting here is that the iPhone camera does not zoom, so the tip is about finding a way to "fake zoom" and use that as a magnifying glass. Everyone who needs reading glasses can appreciate that. ;-) BTW, for information about the Accessibility Zoom feature I mentioned above, It's a iPhone OS 3.0 feature: http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/accessibility.html
Use iPhone as magnifying glass
That (using any camera) actually occurred to me. I tried it with my (consumer) casio s10 (I LOVE this camera) and it didn't focus as well.
Use iPhone as magnifying glass
And I've since used it often: mostly in dimly lit restaurants. Sure, a magnifying glass, reading glasses, another camera, would all have worked. But I had my iPhone.
Use iPhone as magnifying glass
You stated accessibility is an iPhone OS 3.0 feature--however in fact, I believe it is a 3GS feature. My earlier iPhone running OS 3.0 does NOT have accessibility (at least as far as I can tell).
Use iPhone as magnifying glass
I stand corrected. The Zoom feature is an iPhone 3Gs feature (which runs 3.0), not a iPhone OS 3.0 feature. |
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