What is macro photography?
Macro photography is taking pictures of really small things. The definition of a macro photograph used to be that the photograph would have to be on the scale 1:1 on the negative. This means that if you took a picture of a ruler, then if you put the ruler on the developed negative, the picture of the ruler would be as big as, or bigger, as the ruler itself. Nowadays, however, this definition has been abandoned by the manufacturers of Macro lenses. The new definition seems to be that the scale 1:2 (i.e the negative is half the size of the real life object) defines “macro” Most digital cameras have a “macro” function. In general, this means one of two things; 1) you tell the camera that whatever you try to photograph is close, so not to bother about focusing far away 2) true macro, down to extremely short focal distances. For the main part, macro photography is exclusive to systems with exchangable lenses, such as SLR or medium format system cameras. Most compact cameras won’t be able to
