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Science for the Curious Photographer, 2nd Edition
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Science for the Curious Photographer, 2nd Edition

by Charles Johnson, Jr.
August 2017
Beginner
304 pages
9h 18m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 12 How to Get Very High Magnification

 

 

Macro photography refers to close-up photography; the classical definition is that the image projected on the “film plane” (i.e film or a digital sensor) is close to the same size as the subject.

—Wikipedia

Life is a tragedy when seen close-up, but a comedy in longshot.

—Charlie Chaplin

 

 

12.1 Introduction

Images of objects that fill up most of the picture frame are often called close-ups, but that is not the subject here. This chapter is concerned with real close-ups and “macro” photography. This distinction is made clear by the concept of magnification, m, which just means the ratio of the size (height) of the image of an object to the actual size (height) of the object (see Chapter ...

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