Smartphone skin check apps

If the smart phone app also requires you to use the phone camera, I'd probably be looking for a different approach.  There are medical photographers who can do a good job.  I'd prefer a good DSLR with a macro lens to get as much detail as possible over a phone camera.   Have any family/friends who are into photography with decent equipment? 

Then, in lighting you can duplicate, take a close up pic, then a further back pic of the same area.  That way, you can orient yourself on where that particular mole is on your body.  Also lets you monitor the skin for "new and different".  When they did it professionally on me, they used a sticker by each mole that had a ruler and a letter.  They took closeup pics of all my moles on my left front leg, then another pic further back with the stickers still in place so you could see where each mole with sticker was located on my leg.   

I, personally, don't think a smart phone camera using the macro setting is nearly as good a lens as a DSLR gives when you are looking for minute details.

If the smart phone app also requires you to use the phone camera, I'd probably be looking for a different approach.  There are medical photographers who can do a good job.  I'd prefer a good DSLR with a macro lens to get as much detail as possible over a phone camera.   Have any family/friends who are into photography with decent equipment? 

Then, in lighting you can duplicate, take a close up pic, then a further back pic of the same area.  That way, you can orient yourself on where that particular mole is on your body.  Also lets you monitor the skin for "new and different".  When they did it professionally on me, they used a sticker by each mole that had a ruler and a letter.  They took closeup pics of all my moles on my left front leg, then another pic further back with the stickers still in place so you could see where each mole with sticker was located on my leg.   

I, personally, don't think a smart phone camera using the macro setting is nearly as good a lens as a DSLR gives when you are looking for minute details.

If the smart phone app also requires you to use the phone camera, I'd probably be looking for a different approach.  There are medical photographers who can do a good job.  I'd prefer a good DSLR with a macro lens to get as much detail as possible over a phone camera.   Have any family/friends who are into photography with decent equipment? 

Then, in lighting you can duplicate, take a close up pic, then a further back pic of the same area.  That way, you can orient yourself on where that particular mole is on your body.  Also lets you monitor the skin for "new and different".  When they did it professionally on me, they used a sticker by each mole that had a ruler and a letter.  They took closeup pics of all my moles on my left front leg, then another pic further back with the stickers still in place so you could see where each mole with sticker was located on my leg.   

I, personally, don't think a smart phone camera using the macro setting is nearly as good a lens as a DSLR gives when you are looking for minute details.

When I was first diagnosed one of the best things I did was have grid photography of my body performed by a professional. It was not cheap, I think it was $1,000, but my insurance covered it. Now when I go in to see my derm (even though I am stage IV I still see him every three months) he can hold up a photo as he checks out that part of my body. He has found a couple of melanomas on my scalp that way and when I see something suspicious I can zoom in on that area of the photo (I have the high-res digital versions on my computer) and compare.

– Paul.

When I was first diagnosed one of the best things I did was have grid photography of my body performed by a professional. It was not cheap, I think it was $1,000, but my insurance covered it. Now when I go in to see my derm (even though I am stage IV I still see him every three months) he can hold up a photo as he checks out that part of my body. He has found a couple of melanomas on my scalp that way and when I see something suspicious I can zoom in on that area of the photo (I have the high-res digital versions on my computer) and compare.

– Paul.

When I was first diagnosed one of the best things I did was have grid photography of my body performed by a professional. It was not cheap, I think it was $1,000, but my insurance covered it. Now when I go in to see my derm (even though I am stage IV I still see him every three months) he can hold up a photo as he checks out that part of my body. He has found a couple of melanomas on my scalp that way and when I see something suspicious I can zoom in on that area of the photo (I have the high-res digital versions on my computer) and compare.

– Paul.