And as far as tablets are concerned,
yes, you could make some OK images of your work
very quickly like we did here, use the music box,
which you've seen before.
This one was made with the tablet.
But always keep in mind that the file size is not
even close to what we get with a full size camera.
And it's certainly not as convenient as a camera phone,
in my opinion.
But I thought I'd show you something I was playing around
with a while ago.
And here's an image I made of an area of a device.
And we could actually see 30-micron structures.
I made the images with a tablet.
It's considerably cropped from the full image.
Now here's the setup.
I put the tablet's camera on "selfie" mode, that is,
using the front camera.
The idea is that you can see exactly what the camera is
seeing and so that you could make adjustments
to the set up in real time.
Here's the jeweler's lens that I placed over the camera
in the tablet.
And here's the set up from another angle.
Let's zoom in so that you see how it looks.
So basically, I am making a microscopic image
with this setup.
You can adjust the distance of the lens from the device
by using different wooden blocks, for example.
There are number of companies selling supposedly
microscopic lenses, which you attach to your phone or tablet,
but I'm not convinced the quality of the optics
is what we want.
Here we see some very fine detail, because
of the quality of the lens.
But unfortunately, the file size as we said is pretty low,
but that is improving rapidly.
So this could be a quick way of sharing
your work with your colleagues through emails for example.
It's just something to think about.