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Message: <blockquote data-quote="westmill" data-source="post: 55196" data-attributes="member: 9330">The term macro is used for lenses designed for shooting 1/1. This means that it will shoot life size images.IE... If you shoot a butterfly say, and the butterfly was an inch long it will appear an inch long on your sensor.Greater magnification than 1 to 1 is called micro.Your lens is considerd going into macro at the point where the elements start to move forward.You can consider it as close focus when its focussed as close as it will go, while macro is locked.You are then in macro mode, when its not locked and you can exceed the normal close focus distance.</blockquote>