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microphotography|ˌmaɪkrəʊfəˈtɒgrəfɪ|
[f. micro- + photography.]
1. The art or process of making photographs of very small size.
1858T. Sutton Dict. Photogr., Micro-Photography. Under this head may be included two different processes. One..consists in copying objects on an exceedingly small scale, the photograph being intended to be viewed through a magnifier... The other..consists in producing enlarged photographs of minute objects—that is, in fixing the images obtained in the microscope. 1867Sutton & Dawson Dict. Photogr., Micro-Photography. This term is now used to designate the reduction of negatives to a very minute size, and serves to distinguish it from the process denominated ‘Photo-micrography’. 1900Westm. Gaz. 12 Sept. 8/2 A letter printed in microphotography is gummed to his [a bee's] little back, and he is thrown into the air.
2. The art or process of producing by photography an enlarged image of a microscopically minute object: = photomicrography.
1858[see 1]. 1875tr. Vogel's Chem. Light xiv. 209 Excellent results have been achieved in microphotography by Neyt at Ghent. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 104 Examples may also be given of balloon, stellar, and microphotography. |