• Karl
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    2 months ago

    I’m a little confused. Doesn’t macro mean big? Cute pics btw

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      2 months ago

      I don’t know but my phone call the setting to take close up detail in photo “macro”

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      The term photo-macrograph was proposed in 1899 by W. H. Walmsley for close-up images with less than 10 diameters magnification, to distinguish from true photo-micrographs.