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Makes things look bigger without making them any more true.
means The act or process of enlarging the apparent size of something, whether through a lens or through sheer exaggeration.
from From Latin magnificare, 'to make great' or 'to extol' — built from magnus (great) plus facere (to make). It traveled through optics, where lenses literally made small things look large, but the Latin root was already doing duty in rhetoric and praise, making things seem grander in words long before glass did it with light.
- formula
- image size divided by object size
- microscopes vs telescopes
- one shrinks distance, one shrinks scale
- hidden cost
- more zoom, less light, less field of view
- illusion warning
- bigger image is not sharper detail