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You could pair this word up with just about anything else except for "camera" (e.g. macro lens/shot/flash/capable/work/setting/photo etc.) To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a "macro camera". If you're trying to determine what macro images are, this definition hails from the old days of film: it is an image where the ratio of the recorded image size to the actual object size is from 1:1 to 10:1. In other words, the image recorded on film is the same size as the object (1:1) or is up to 10x larger than the object. If you go beyond 10:1 you have branched into photomicrography. Anything less than 1:1 is "close up" Photography.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoActually, it is not the camera that is "macro"; it is that the lens is a macro lens. This type of lens permits the creation of an image that is the same size or larger than the real object. For example, if you reproduced a matchstick at a 1:1 ratio and placed the matchstick on top of the negative or slide, it would be the same size as the image. If the ratio was 2:1. the image would be twice the size of the real object.
Once you exceed an image size:object size ratio of 10:1, you are in the photomicrography realm. Anything less than 1:1 (e.g. 1:2) is more accurately referred to "close up" photography in spite of what might be printed on the lens you're using.
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