How to Use macro lens in a Sentence

macro lens

noun
  • While the macro lens may make these subjects look massive, the fly was only about 10mm long.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Another option is getting in super close with a macro lens.
    — Mike De Sisti, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But with that said, the iPhone 15 Pro can benefit from a macro lens.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 25 June 2025
  • In addition to the fisheye lens, the kit also includes a super wide-angle and macro lens.
    — Charlie Fripp, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • Get some lycopodium powder, a 50 Hz speaker, and a macro lens.
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2013
  • Kovacs uses his camera, a macro lens and those strobe lights to photograph them in stunning detail.
    — Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Jeff zoomed with his macro lens while Aaron collected some of the larvae to hopefully raise into adults.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2015
  • The addition of a macro lens would be nice, but the physical lens requirements of a true macro could make that difficult to achieve.
    — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Linder uses a smartphone camera, likely with a macro lens, to make small, close-up studies that flirt with abstraction.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Just clip on the wide angle or macro lens to your phone to get high-quality photos on your next adventure — no heavy camera equipment required.
    — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Students can learn about landscape photography, macro lenses, shooting music videos, and much more.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Using a dedicated camera and macro lens is also an option, as is scanning via your smartphone camera.
    — PCMAG, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Subjects close to the camera are better served with an interchangeable macro lens, a feature on some cameras that shortens focus to within three feet.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Xu’s drawings and sculptural paintings are not literal, but do sometimes resemble phenomena that might be spied through a macro lens.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
  • All six phones also have dual, triple- and quad-camera systems with ultra-wide, depth, and macro lenses, big screens, and larger batteries to keep them powered all day.
    — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 9 Apr. 2020
  • In both dials, the pattern becomes more of a texture when seen at time-telling distance, but under the loupe—or our macro lens—the texture is downright fascinating.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The macro lens is equally unimpressive, rendering dark and pixelated images.
    — Sarah Lord, PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Up close, when captured with a camera using a macro lens, the animals can appear to loom as large as wild animals on a safari — a safari on another planet.
    — Erik Olsen New York Times, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • That product made more sense for the average consumer, given that a single lens costs less than $17, easily fits on the phone, and functions as more of a macro lens than a microscope.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Photographed with a 90-mm macro lens off Bunaken Island in Sulawesi, Indonesia.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Thankfully, the macro lens found on the OnePlus 12R has been replaced with an x2 telephoto camera.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Filmmakers use high-magnification macro lenses, which focus on objects extremely close to the camera, rather than telephoto lenses, which focus on objects far away.
    — Matt Jancer, Outside Online, 11 June 2018
  • Crucially, this uses the main camera lens rather than the ultrawide lens or a dedicated macro lens used by other smartphones from several manufacturers.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • When installed in a dining room, the Constellation system operates like a macro lens, helping diners and staff focus on the sounds that matter while blurring out competing noises.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Brian Waddell used a 200mm macro lens to show us the feather-like features of a fern while Darla Murray zeroed in on a dragonfly with dazzling wings.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • This is joined by a 20-MP night-vision camera (not color) for revealing hidden secrets in the shadows, as well as a 2-MP macro lens.
    — New Atlas, 19 Feb. 2025
  • If that project looks at our troubled planet with a macro lens, her new album Fossora zooms in Google Map-style, looking at people on the ground and in the room, measuring distances between them.
    — Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2022
  • This exhibit will look into the history of making the invisible visible, exploring x-rays, macro lenses, microscopes and images such as snowflakes, tiny insects and even spirits.
    — Martina Schimitschek, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018

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