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Message:: [QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2298182, member: 1892"]I'm unsurprised by the quality of some smartphone cameras; there are a few out there which can easily produce gradable images of coins. In conjunction with quality optics like Olloclip is doing, there's no reason why one cannot produce detail images of similar quality. Perhaps not as good as bespoke microscope units - optics is one technology where there's no substitute for money when it comes to quality - but certainly sufficient for evaluating doubling and the like. So that's my biggest worry about the Kickstarter project here, the quality of the optics they'll be using. The provided images are not remotely large enough to evaluate the thing in the context of numismatic imagery needs, although the ~$150 price point is sufficient to expect decent optics. Don't forget, smartphone camera sensors are tiny, and they require serious software coaxing to provide sharp images to begin with. The average phone camera sensor has pixels measuring about 1.2 microns; an 18MP Canon dSLR sensor's pixels (for example) measure about 4.3 microns. If anything, it requires sharper optics to achieve acceptable images from a smartphone than a dSLR lens. Yet the above is proof they're getting it right. The tradeoff is, with a smartphone one is dependent on the manufacturer's in-camera software, offering very little manual adjustment. If the phone can get it right, it can and that's all there is to it.[/QUOTE]