Why Does My Magnifying Glass Not Work Infront Of My Camera?

[The Architekt]

Why Does My Magnifying Glass Not Work Infront Of My Camera?

 

 

Hello, I was taking photos of some antique earnings but since they are rather small, 5 centimeters in length, I bought a magnifying glass to ensure that my DIGITAL CAMERA took crystal clear images with the best resolution.

 

When I placed the magnifying glass in front of the earnings so to enlarge them, I then placed my digital camera infront of the magnifying glass to take the photos of the earrings...

 

I noticed in the LCD screen of the digital camera, that the earnings "looked the same" rather with a magnifying glass or not..

I tweaked the shutter speed and aputure, set the digital camera to manual mode and played with all the other settings, and nothing changed.

 

 

At first I thought it was because of some type of interference with the camera's zoom options.

 

I have never seen this before and was wondering if professional scientist here know why this is please, or maybe this is a new discovery and can help scientist find other things in the world of photography!

 

I do not want to mention the brand here in public, all I can say is that it is a high end brand...

 

 

Thanks In Advance, hope you reply...

Edited June 24, 2012 by The Architekt

[doG]

I just tried it with mine and it worked just fine. I did have to play around moving the glass to and fro to get it focused but once focused it took a magnified image.

[swansont]

Does the camera have a "macro" setting?

[Bill Angel]

sure it works

take a look at the size of my eye in my self portrait icon (upper left)

I was holding a magnifying lens in front of my face

Edited June 24, 2012 by Bill Angel

[The Architekt]

HA! Saw it! NICE!

sure it works

take a look at the size of my eye in my self portrait icon (upper left)

I was holding a magnifying lens in front of my face

 

YES! this must be it YAY!! THANKS! Am not really familiar with digital cams but thought this was a phenomena, wow my quick mind, HA!, but it is good to ask, I learn much here, THANKS

Does the camera have a "macro" setting?