Indeed, this is why Leica, the inventors of using 35 mm film for stills, called it Kleinbild - “small image”. At the time people doubted you could make optics g

Indeed, this is why Leica, the inventors of using 35 mm film for stills, called it Kleinbild - “small image”. At the time people doubted you could make optics good enough for this to work out, but Zeiss (inventors of modern optical engineering) and Leitz proved those naysayers wrong.