Re: Macro mode

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 15:10:07 -0400, Neil Harrington wrote:

As a practical matter it isn't really the lens to focal plane magnification
ratio that matters, it's the final image size. So in a sense you're right,
the compact camera's smaller sensor has the advantage that it can achieve
the same final image size with a smaller in-camera magnification, since more
magnification is necessarily applied *after* the on-sensor magnification.

Have view cameras (using say, 8"x10" plates) been used to take
larger than life images, such as for a portrait of a baby's face or
pictures of other objects of similar size? If so, were contact size
prints called macro photos?

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