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单词 microphotography
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microphotographyn.

Brit. /ˌmʌɪkrə(ʊ)fəˈtɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /ˈˌmaɪkroʊfəˈtɑɡrəfi/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: micro- comb. form, photography n.
Etymology: < micro- comb. form + photography n.G. Shadbolt claimed ( Jrnl. Photogr. Soc. (Liverpool) (1859) 6 104) to have coined this word on the occasion of an exhibition at the premises of Messrs Smith and Beck at Coleman St. in London in 1854; compare quot. 1858 at microphotograph n. 1. The words microphotography and microphotograph do not appear in the report of this exhibition in Jrnl. Photogr. Soc. (Liverpool) (1854) 1 194, where the expression ‘minute photographs’ is used instead.
1. The process or practice of making photographs of very small size.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [noun] > types or methods generally
microphotography1857
pistolgraphy1860
portrait photography1864
pistolography1866
photochronography1887
snap-work1889
gallery-practice1891
photoreproduction1892
telephotography1892
Kodakry1893
fuzzyism1894
mugging1899
action photography1905
press photography1910
trick photography1913
Kodachrome1915
panchromatism1919
photo reporting1935
photojournalism1938
photo-reportage1939
strobe1949
streak photography1950
satellite photography1954
digital photography1972
time-lapse1975
1857 Liverpool & Manchester Photogr. Jrnl. New Ser. 1 241/2 The papers on micro-photography, the substance of which we print elsewhere.
1858 T. 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.
1867 T. Sutton & G. 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’.
1886 Cent. Mag. 32 362/1 The method of sending the message..is to place it, reduced by microphotography, in the quill of a loose tail-feather of the color of the bird that is to carry it.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 12 Sept. 8/2 A letter printed in microphotography is gummed to his [sc. a bee's] little back, and he is thrown into the air.
1959 Spectator 11 Sept. 322/3 The..British Secret Service agent is instructed to send his reports by micro-photography; the document is photographed; the photograph is reduced in size until it is the size of a full-stop, in which condition it is stuck to an ordinary letter.
1972 Sci. Amer. Jan. 68 (advt.) With a Nikon compound microscope, it performs photomicrography... With the same basic stand and other Nikon accessories, microphotography..can also be done.
1983 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 70 474 Beginning with the development of microphotography in the nineteenth century,..[the book] discusses the work of such pioneers as Robert C. Binkley and Eugene Power.
1994 New Scientist 12 Mar. 44/3 Quite why microphotography so intrigued the Victorian mind is difficult to grasp.
2. The process or practice of producing a photographic reproduction of a microscopic image; = photomicrography n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [noun] > producing larger image
microphotography1858
photomicrography1865
macrophotography1889
telephotomicrography1897
photomicroscopy1905
cinemicrography1921
photomacrography1936
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [noun] > producing smaller image
microphotography1858
micrographics1968
1858 T. 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 other..consists in producing enlarged photographs of minute objects—that is, in fixing the images obtained in the microscope.
1875 tr. H. W. Vogel Chem. Light & Photogr. xiv. 209 Excellent results have been achieved in microphotography by Neyt at Ghent.
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 104 Examples may also be given of balloon, stellar, and microphotography.
1902 Biometrika 1 401 As micro-photography has not as yet been generally applied to living Ciliata, I give a few notes on the method employed.
1957 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 44 505 (note) My thanks are due..to Mr. R. S. Pathania of the Panjab University for assistance in microphotography.
1994 W. Maples & M. Browning Dead Men do tell Tales x. 144 A lot of photographs have to be taken, and this can be painstaking, jeweler's work involving ultra-closeups or microphotography.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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