Joe, I do know what macro is. When I first got a camera (analog) with macro, I went nuts taking pictures of dragonflies, flowers, and anything small that held still long enough.

What I meant was that I can stand a meter away from someone, take their picture, and at 100%, you can count their nose hairs. You get more ambient light in from farther away, so your F-stop and shutter speed can be higher. (Which doesn't matter if you're not using ambient lighting and you+camera or the object being photographed isn't moving. Don's jewelry usually doesn't move too fast...at least not on its own.

I'm lazy though.