​Five Fun Tricks You Can Perform With Your Android Camera

5 Things you Never Knew you Could do With your Android Phone Camera
Not long ago cameras were expensive, clunky and very technical – a lot has changed. Even the cheapest Android devices can be turned to create all sorts of amazing, cool and often odd sorts of photos. This said, a lot of people don't know where to start. So, here are five awesome things to do with your cheap Android camera phone.

Scan and Then Digitize Your Old Negatives

I want to begin by going on record and saying that this is not the best way to get this done. A lot of pros have favourite old school ways to do this and it's worth mentioning Plustek or Lomography Opticfilm scanner to properly capture your old negatives digitally.

But if you are looking for the shortcut, the quickest way to view and capture your old negatives you can use the negative effect on your camera. You can also look into apps which specialize in this such as the HELMUT Film Scanner.

While Moving You Are Still Able To Utilize Your Panorama Shot

Many people have nicknamed this camera hack the "PanoDriveBy". Nowadays most smartphones include some kind of a stock "panorama" option which allows for large wide vistas to be captured by combining a variety of images taken as the user tilts or moves their camera, you can also find various third party apps which provide the same function.

This are of course designed to be used by an individual who is standing still you can however get them to function while you are moving. All that this requires is that you hold the smartphone still while pointing it out the window. The images can however look a bit questionable ones stitched together you can however add your own special effects afterwards to spruce it up.

Your Phone and Telescopes Go Hand In Hand

This is a basic yet widely unknown little trick. By simply placing your phone's lens right on the telescope you can capture the image on the other side in a magnified way. While on my honeymoon in Argentina I tried this very thing. Although the bird I believe it was uncooperative and flew away before the shot was actually taken. This also works well with binoculars.

Slow the World Down and Speed it Up Again
Even though they are no competition for high speed cameras such as IDT High Speed Cameras, smart phone cameras have come a long way in recent years. There are a number of cool apps out there that make it easier to capture high speed images once you are shooting in well light conditions.
High-Speed Cameras take numerous photos at a rate of up to 30 a second, allowing you to capture every moment from before the action starts to well after it's over. With 30 frames per second you can't miss the action. And though not perfect, it can still produce excellent results.

Cause TV Personalities Heads to Burst

If you have a favourite personality you find to be intelligent you can spread the message through social media by using a trick of perspective to visually expand their brain. Hold the camera close to the screen while pointing it downward. This will show everyone exactly how special their brain really is. No Photoshop is needed simply #BoomBigHead.

Inexpensive Phone Sensors Are Awesome

I am sure, as we all have, have at some point tried taking a shot with your phone's camera of an object in movement, you probably realized it did not look right. The thing is that the majority of consumer's smartphones cameras use CMOS sensors, images are captured in a line-by-line sequence, instead of the pricier CCD image sensor which can all at once capture the action happening on the other side of the camera lens, also known as a "global shutter".

When you are taking a picture of a still person or object there is not much of an obvious difference. If however an object suddenly moves then the picture may seem warped, this is because the object or objects may have moved right when the next line was rendered, this warping effect is also known as "jellocam".

Various manufacturers have had varying levels of success while attempting to reduce these effects with the use of software workarounds. That being said many of today's most modern phones can still have a problem or two with warping if a picture of a rapidly moving object is such as a car in motion, a propeller on a plane etc. is trying to be captured. Although this is not a perfect portrayal of reality it still looks pretty cool.

So, our advice is to take the above on board and get out and capture some great, weird photos making the most of the cheap tech available.