"Gareth Magennis" wrote in message ...

By the way, if you have an old 35mm camera to hand,
try taking a 50mm lens and reversing it.
You can get the same effect by simply holding the lens
reversed in front of any digital camera lens.

Well... no. That's not at all the same thing.

What you're doing is using the camera lens (reversed or not) as a plus lens to
allow the Webcam to focus closer.