Macro vs Zoom

[Pepo]

Someone can explain me the difference?

I'm trying to find out, but i've seen in the forum that the "Macro" is what i thought it was zoom?

sorry about the naive question.. :$

thanks for your help!

-P.

[Alex1994]

OK zoom refers to a focal length that can change.

For more on focal length, refer to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_length Scroll down to the bit about photography.

You can have a wideangle lens, which makes things look smaller than the eye perceives them, a normal lens (50mm on a full-frame camera) that makes things about the same size as what we see and a telephoto lens which makes them look bigger.

A lens that can change focal lengths (as opposed to one where the focal length is always the same, or a prime lens) is called a zoom lens.

Focussing down to very small distances, taking pictures of very small things is called macro photography.

[yelvertoft]

Originally Posted by Alex1994

Focussing down to very small distances, taking pictures of very small things is called macro photography.

The size of the subject is entirely irrelevant, you can take a macro shot of an elephant, though probably not with it all in view at the same time. The definition of macro photography is discussed at some length here:
http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...ead.php?t=5867