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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1097228, member: 27832"]Shooting very close macro with any camera is a challenge. The closer you get to your subject, the shallower your depth of focus becomes. To get good focus, you almost have to use some sort of stand or mount; if you try to hold your camera, you'll wobble a little bit between the time you focus and the time you take the picture, and it'll be blurry. You won't get very good results using the camera flash -- if you're close enough to shoot macro, it won't give uniform illumination, and often the lens housing casts a shadow on the subject. According to a quick Google search, the smallest field that the SX10IS will cover in macro mode is around 36x27mm. That means you won't be able to fill the field with a penny or a dime, but you certainly can with a half dollar, and you can come very close with a quarter. You'll probably get some distortion at that range, though, so you might have to settle for backing further away from the coin and then cropping your image. I've been shooting with a good lens, and what used to be a midrange camera (Canon 100mm macro on a 20D body), mounted on a cheap tripod. I do some fussy stuff to improve the images -- I use "mirror lockup" and a remote shutter-release cable to minimize camera vibration, and I use "raw" image format so I can adjust exposure and color balance on the computer. I don't think any of that is really necessary to get acceptable images, though, especially if your target is Web images. I've been meaning to experiment with a couple of low-end point-and-click cameras to see what they can accomplish. Don't know when I'll get around to actually experimenting and writing it up, though.[/QUOTE]

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