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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 861956, member: 19463&quot;]To Mark T and those who agree with him:</p><p>The point was that there is no &quot;best camera&quot; since the limiting factor on quality is rarely the camera. Your Avatar shows you like slabs and the plastic you shoot through will offfset the quality you gain with an upgrade. Unless you are planning on making a very large print, many owners of a point and shoot would be better off shooting from six inches away and taking advantage of the the lighting freedom that allows. For selling online and posting to this site in reduced size most newer cameras are oversize in terms of megapixels. You would lose quality when cropping but not as much as you lose by having the lens an inch from the coin. There are point and shoots that allow macro at both the telephoto and wide ends of the zoom. The last one I owned was a Minolta D7i. It is a feature worth seeking out if for some reason you insist on not owning a DSLR. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ll change my statement: The &quot;best&quot; camera is one that the owner can and will take the effort to learn to use if necessary working around its shortcomings. Too many people buy a new camera thinking it is some sort of magic solution to all their photo ails. They then blaim Canon or Nikon for problems that are much closer to home. Buy what fits. </p><p>Original Canon Digital Rebel, 100mm Canon macro:</p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/108291601.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Reduced to this size, I do not see where it would be improved by using a 1Ds mkIII but I do notice that this file looks better on pBase than here on Coin Talk because of the file resize routine imposed here.&nbsp; Compare:</p><p><a href="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/108291601" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/108291601" rel="nofollow">http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/108291601</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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