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Macro is 1:1 or greater....no ifs butts or maybes about it in my eyes.

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And yet the reality, in print, on the wall in an exhibition or as a projected image would be indistinguishable. Surely, the 'no ifs or buts' point is irrelevant in relation to what the audience will see?

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I'm not suggesting you can't produce pretty close up pictures at less than 1:1. What I am saying is that the word "macro" when referring to photography means recording something at lifesize or greater. Macro is a technical term abused by marketing folk when they put it on lenses that don't go to 1:1.

There's a bit on Wiki saying that in marketing speak macro means that in a 6x4 print the subject will be bigger than it was in real life. Load of rubbish IMO....macro means recording at lifesize or greater not printing at lifesize or greater.

Some links here: Clicky

Canon marketing folk abuse the M word too....the Canon 50mm macro only does 1:2 and there's a load of zooms with macro written on them too. I suspect most manufacturers are at it