After a very specific camera

[peej]

Hi, I know theres a million of these threads but I'm after something pretty specific so I dont think the search functions going to be much use to me.

My last camera was a powershot G9. It was a very nice piece of kit, but, Im not a photographer and it got very little use, it was fairly expensive and was stolen along with about £5k worth of stuff this summer.

So now, I'm looking for a cheap compact camera, that has a nice macro for snapping minis. Thats all I want, apart from the minis it will maybe be used to take daft photos on nights out or special occasions so it doesnt need to be fancy.

To summarise
-Compact
-Nice Macro
-Cheap (£100 - £150ish)
-Preferably a decent make

Cheers. xx

 

[Glen11]

Check out: www.dpreview.com

They are an awesome camera review website. They give you an indepth review or just the pros & cons.

Its a good source. If you come across anything you really like and are concerned send me a PM, I'm a photographer and have helped a bunch a people with buying new cameras.

Good Luck...

Glen

 

[nels0nmac]

Any of the Canon Powershot cameras are pretty good. They have good lenses and normally have optical zoom of 3x. I've seen one of the latest Powershots, 10MP version for under £100 in the Wilkinsons catalogue. There's the Powershot E1 on Argos for under £100 as well and that has 4x optical zoom :- Link http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5591507/c_1/1|category_root|Photography|14419436/c_2/3|cat_15701379|Digital+cameras+and+packages|14419441.htm

 

[peej]

Cheers

Thanks guys, both good reccomendations, I used that website and ended up buying a Cannon Powershot SX200 IS .
ended up going a bit over budget but the super macro is unreal, will post some pics soon hopefully if i get time to paint heh.

Thanks Guys.

 

[peej]

http://www.coolminiornot.com/238532

First pic I've posted with the new camera. It does the job nicely, and can get much much closer than this. Tis very nice.