If you shine light grazing across the chips, the indented printing on the chips will show up better. Also, if you set your phone on a box so it is very steady and use the timed shutter so your finger is not moving the opine, you should get crystal clear pictures. Make sure the box or whatever you use to hold the phone is about 12" from the chip (zoom in as needed to get good photos of the part numbers - but keep the phone/camera back from the parts so it can focus.