macro lens

noun

: a camera lens designed to focus at very short distances with up to life-size magnification of the image

Examples of macro lens in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The macro lens is equally unimpressive, rendering dark and pixelated images. Sarah Lord, PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024 Photographed with a 90-mm macro lens off Bunaken Island in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2024 Kovacs uses his camera, a macro lens and those strobe lights to photograph them in stunning detail. Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023 Linder uses a smartphone camera, likely with a macro lens, to make small, close-up studies that flirt with abstraction. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023 On the other hand, Moment’s macro lens gives you a shallower depth of field and the advantage of the iPhone’s much better primary camera for sharper detail. Wes Davis, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2023 In addition to the fisheye lens, the kit also includes a super wide-angle and macro lens. Charlie Fripp, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023 This requires a few extra tools: a cup, mosquito dipper, bulb syringe and camera macro lens. Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021 That macro lens depicts a failure. Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022

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Word History

Etymology

macro-, from the fact that the focal length is greater than normal

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of macro lens was in 1961

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“Macro lens.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/macro%20lens. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

macro lens

noun
: a camera lens designed to focus at very short distances and producing up to life-size images
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