macro lens
noun
: a camera lens designed to focus at very short distances with up to life-size magnification of the image
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Linder uses a smartphone camera, likely with a macro lens, to make small, close-up studies that flirt with abstraction.
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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
The photographer’s lockdown photography project over the past 12 months involved using colored glass bottles and macro lens to capture the reflections and the light cast through the glass to created abstract and impressionistic seascapes and landscapes.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
The Jouberts specialize in looking at our planet through a micro and macro lens at the same time.
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020
While the macro lens may make these subjects look massive, the fly was only about 10mm long.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
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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
The photographer’s lockdown photography project over the past 12 months involved using colored glass bottles and macro lens to capture the reflections and the light cast through the glass to created abstract and impressionistic seascapes and landscapes.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
The Jouberts specialize in looking at our planet through a micro and macro lens at the same time.
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020
While the macro lens may make these subjects look massive, the fly was only about 10mm long.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
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macro lens
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: a camera lens designed to focus at very short distances and producing up to life-size images
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