Digital Camera Advice

[Napoleon]

I am looking for a different digital camera. I currently have 2. The first one is an old Sony Cybershot 1.3 Mega Pixels with 3X optical zoom. The newer that I bought was a Canon PowerShot A630. I bought them both because they both had macro lens that would work down to less than 1". That was important because I paint 6mm figures(sometimes 2mm) and was always wanting to take pics without a macro lens, etc, etc. I still use the old Sony Cybershot because I cannot take a good picture with the Cannon PowerShot with all of its options and have it come out not blurry, taking lots of pictures to get one usable, etc. So I am looking for another simple point and shoot camera that would still provide me a built in macro lens for taking pix of very small figures but being able to capture the details well like my old Sony Cybershot. I see Sony has several newer Cybershots and were wondering if that was the way to go or if there are other brands that people could suggest to me. Like I said I really just am looking for a point and shoot and nothing where I have to set the aperture, f stop, etc on my newer camera. Just let me know.


I will make someone a good deal on a very little used Cannon digital camera(ha!ha!)

[Eldred]

I'm personally a big fan of Nikon, cameras. The only real differences now between cameras are the glass in the lenses (most have good quality glass for the major brands Sony, Canon, Nikon, ect). Sony used to use Carl Zeiss lenses a German manufacture that's always been noted for their high quality.

For what your looking for though I'd honestly have to say it would be something you'd have to test out on the different camera's your looking at. Or when you look at a cameras specs macro is represented as a ratio e.g.
1:2 means that the subject will be half the size on the ccd (film negative) as it is in real life.
1:1 means that the subject will be the same size on the ccd (film negative) as it is in real life.

[MaximumTaco]

I use a Canon Powershot SD790 IS and I get great results when taking macro shots. You might want to try using a book or tiny tripod to rest the camera on. If the image is still blurry, try using a higher resolution shot, back the camera up to six inches or so (even more if needed) and use the zoom lens to get closer. That way it can do the focusing for you and you still get the closeup you're looking for.

Hope that helps!

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[Delta_Ice]

If you want he best bang for your buck look into your local big box store's camera display and see if any of the Fuji's have went disco yet. This time of year many of the cameras are going discontinued and can be bought for an amazing deal. Fuji to me is the best you can buy for the price point and their customer service is second to none. Quite often tehy even replaced phsysical damage cameras for me when I ddi service for a major electronics company up here.