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<blockquote data-quote="skene" data-source="post: 400607" data-attributes="member: 13155">Word Origin and History for micro-&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; word-forming element meaning &quot;small, microscopic; magnifying; one millionth,&quot; from Latinized comb. form of Greek mikros &quot;small, little, petty, trivial, slight&quot; (see <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mica" target="_blank">mica</a> ). &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Now if you were going beyond the scope of anything from a 1:1 reproduction ratio.... 1000000:1 and going beyond what the human eye can see, then you would be shooting micro.&nbsp; However since the basic comprehension of what the camera is able to photograph with reproduction of size from 1:1-5:1 and so forth, you are aiming for a large sized object being able to fit image to image on the sensor.&nbsp; Hence the term macro is used in macro photography and not micro photography (unless you were taking pictures of blood cells and muscle tissue).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="skene, post: 400607, member: 13155"] Word Origin and History for micro- word-forming element meaning "small, microscopic; magnifying; one millionth," from Latinized comb. form of Greek mikros "small, little, petty, trivial, slight" (see [URL="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mica"]mica[/URL] ). Now if you were going beyond the scope of anything from a 1:1 reproduction ratio.... 1000000:1 and going beyond what the human eye can see, then you would be shooting micro. However since the basic comprehension of what the camera is able to photograph with reproduction of size from 1:1-5:1 and so forth, you are aiming for a large sized object being able to fit image to image on the sensor. Hence the term macro is used in macro photography and not micro photography (unless you were taking pictures of blood cells and muscle tissue). [/QUOTE]

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