Zooming to a microscopic scale

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Hi All,

Is it possible to change the focal length of the camera so it becomes able to zoom in to an object that is very very little (around 1 micrometer) ?

I want to show some objects at normal (human eye) scale the zoon in to a microscopic scale…

Thanks.

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Don’t care. If you’re not faking it, you’re doing it wrong.

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You can try to use the blender unit as 10[SUP]-4[/SUP]m which will pretty much let you have objects of 1 - 2 meters, while keeping detail at objects with sizes around 10[SUP]-6[/SUP]m.

But as JA12 said, it’d be better to fake it. Using such a large gap in the coordinate scale, can very easily cripple your workflow, with a complete lost of precision at the OpenGL level, Z figthing artifacts, difficulty in selecting objects, etc;

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Thanks for the replies.
how to mimic a change of scale ?

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somasimple, Did you find a solution to this? I am working on a project where I want to do the same thing.

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