It is standard that smartphone (especially mid-rangers) come with multiple lenses with the standard of the bunch being an ultra wide system and a macro system but the problem with this is due to the cost saving techniques applied on these smartphones, most of the extra camera system attached to them are either not too good or completely crap (crap isn’t a bad word yes?).
The Redmi Note 11 Pro (the device I used for this experiment) isn’t any different, featuring an eight megapixel ultra wide camera and a two megapixel macro camera (which pretty much shouldn’t exist). Comparing both of these to the stunning 108 megapixel main camera. you immediately don’t want to switch to either of both cameras at any point which is where external lens extensions come in. With external lens adapters, it is fairly easy to switch focal lengths of photo style depending on the lens adapter that you purchase.
In this case, I got the most common adapters being a macro lens adapter and a fisheye lens adapter and using both of these adapters alongside the Pro mode on the RN 11 Pro, I tried to see if I could get some quality macro shots.
The 108 megapixel on the phone does significantly elevate the image quality and joining that with the extra glass does bring the images to life as compared to the macro camera on the phone itself. Macro photography is an art that magnifies the part of the world that is rather tiny and as such greatly increases our appreciation for nature.
Exploring Macro Photography can be a way to get an entirely new appreciation for the universe, understand how nature inter-relates with one another of it could simply be a hobby. Anyways, here are the remaining images from the session;
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