microphotograph

plural microphotographs

1. A photograph so reduced in size that it must be viewed through a lens or a microscope.

   Holonyms: microform; microfilm, microfiche; microdot

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   The advantages of the use of photographic reduction in recording documents are so obvious that it is not surprising that the first microphotograph was made shortly after the invention of photography [1-4].¹

   1962, UNESCO, UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries, volume 16

   Microphotograph slides, however, required an expensive microscope for viewing, which make them beyond the reach of the average person.

   2007, Michael R. Peres, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Digital Imaging, Theory and Applications

   [John Benjamin] Dancer's first successful microphotograph, a daguerreotype of a 20 inches long document reduced to 3mm in length, was printed in 1839.

   2008, John Hannavy, editor, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, volume 1, page 926, column 1

2. proscribedsometimesA photograph taken through a microscope, an enlarged picture of a very small item or area: a photomicrograph.

present singular third person microphotographs · participle present microphotographing · participle past microphotographed · past microphotographed

1. To create such a photograph