cameras with macro facilities

hi all

I have decided to get rid of my camera, a Nikon 5000 5 megapixel, because it is a major pain in the maximus glutimus. I regret getting rid of my old digital camera.

I'm sure everyone who has a digital camera has taken or tried to take macro (closeup) photos. What I would like to see is your best shot and what sort of camera you used.

I want your photos to help me decide on what to downgrade to.

thanks

Mark

Can't you get any lens attachments for that camera with a macro? I just got a wide angle lens with macro capability for my Sony Mavica and here's a couple of pics that I took really quick.

Ant at work........it wouldn't stand still for a sec so it's just a bit blurred

here's one of a malva zebrina leaf. the leaf is still small, about 1" in diameter and I put the lens right on the leaf

I would hate so see you get rid of a camera........see if you can get a lense, that's what I did. I wouldn't have been able to take these before as they would have just been a blurr. There is 47st photo on Ebay, that's who I bought mine from. They are cheap and all the lenses are brand new........they are a photo store

here's one of a gnat sitting on one of my brugmansia leaves

it's not the lens that is at fault. It can go in to 2cm less than an inch. It's the overall camera. It has too many menus and sub menus. in good sunlight it cant cope and the same is an over cast day. my last camera a Fuji 2400, macro of 4 inches, was excellent all round. thats what I'm looking for in my new camera

sorry I'm not much help but when you do get a new one I would love to see some of the close-ups :)

Mark, used Olympus camera macro setting for this pic. I just love this camera.

Mark, I have a Fuji 2400Z, and when it works, which is not all the time, it does an acceptable job. I think it is probably a lemon of a camera, because I've heard nothing but good about this model, but mine has temper tantrums at all the most imopportune moments. I'm thinking Olympus next time, and saving my money so I can upgrade in a pixellated way, but I'm also looking for one that isn't anymore complicated to use than my OM1, a camera that I hope I never have to do without.

Here's a picture I took recently. The weather was a bit overcast and I didn't use the flash. The lens was about 4 or 5 inches from the subject.

Ooops! Forgot to mention I use a Sony Mavica FD-92.


This message was edited Friday, May 9th 2:07 PM

i dont have macro in my camera, so I cant take good "close shots".....
here`s one.

This message was edited Friday, May 9th 2:51 PM

A few from last year...

Minolta DiMAGE 5 (no longer manufactured...you need to get the DiMAGE 7Hi if you want one like I have).

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Mine is not nearly as good as hczone 6's, but for a no fuss camera that is smaller than a cigarette pack, I think it is just great. All you have to do is press a button when you want close-ups. It also is very resilient. I have dropped it so many times and it does not mind! With a push of a button the lens retracts and you can slip it into even a breast pocket.


It is a Canon PowerShot S100.

and this one

and one more close-up

and this one just because I love it........LOL

hczone6 is your camera a basic one with no sub menus?

It does have menus and more specialized functions....BUT...you don't have to use all that if you don't want to. I rarely do. I turn the function dial to put it in macro mode and then I just press the button. That's it. There's a full review of the camera here: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/minoltadimage5/

Like I said, if you want something like this, you have to get the DiMAGE 7 since the 5 isn't made now. And as Kell mentioned, if size matters to you, this isn't a small camera. It does have a 7x zoom though...and I love that about it too.

All my pics I had posted were from the borrowed Sony Mavica FD-16. It has only the Micro/Macro adjustments. As good as aim and shoot. I do not have a digicam.

Took with with my Sony Mavica FD97, I held a cheap magnifying glass in front of it, but I take hundreds of pictures with the camera an inch or so away from the subject.

This one was with no magnifying glass.

I've been wanting a digital for some time now but I really haven't a clue about photography at all. Macro?? Pixels?? It's all double dutch to me!! I just want a simple camera without all the extra functions that I probably would not use.

here`s maybe the right distance to my camera, I take closer picture it`s unclear..

Louisa, I am with you........LOL! I was using my camera for months before I reslized I even had a macro. LOL. My next camera will have higher pixels and a longer optical zoom. I just hope I can find one that is also in a cigarette sized camera like I have now. I just love mine!

This picture showed me details I could not even see with my naked eye. I had no idea the bud had such hair and such wrinkles! LOL

What lovely photos - all of them!! I have made a note of all the cameras spoken of here. Thanks everyone and sorry to hijack your thread Mark!! :-)

Mark, the new Olympus C-750 has a 4 megapixel CCD, 10x optical zoom and macro. The only thing it lacks is the image stabilization in the lens, something I love.

I wouldn't mind getting one of these as a second camera someday when their prices go down, just so I could have a higher megapixel than my C-2100 (it's only 2.11mp).

Olympus' menus are not difficult to navigate, and the many of the settings you'd want to access -- macro, shutter mode, exposure reading, etc. -- are available on buttons. They still sell on eBay and some other online venues: http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&query2=olympus+c+2100&search_option=1&minPrice=375&maxPrice=550&category0=&exclude=&st=&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&maxRecordsPerPage=50&worldlocation=ebayavail®ion=0&available_to=1&located_in=1&ebaycurr=&submit=+Search+&siteid=0&query=olympus+c+2100&shortcut=&ebaytag1code_tmp=&ebaytag1_tmp=&ebaytag1code=&ebaytag1=&ebaytag12=ebayreg&from=R14&currdisp=2 Ironically, it sells for more today than it did when we bought ours last summer; it's a bit of a collector's item, I guess!

I love being able to do macro shots by zooming in from several feet away - it saves on my back and lets me get shots I would not normally get for scaring the critters away by getting too close.


This message was edited Saturday, May 17th 9:23 PM

Here is a prickly pear thorn opening taken with my Nikon Coolpix 885.

And here's the bloom from the same plant, same camera.

Cool, Dave. Was the thorn in your finger? Is that why there's just an opening? ;)

No, I think the thorns had already been removed by a passing-by deer or something. :) The opening is tiny, much smaller than the eraser on top of a pencil.

dave

thanks for the details everyone.