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Originally Posted by Jake
Trying to photograph spiders today made me realise that I need a
better digital camera as I found it impossible to focus on something
that big (garden spiders with bodies about three quarters of an inch
plus legs are big in my book)! I've got lots of photos of foliage and
brickwork with blurry blobs in front.
Is anyone able to recommend a decent digital camera for close up
photos of little creatures/flowers and the like? I'm happy to spend a
few hundred squid for a good one though for that money I'd like a
proper viewfinder.
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Can't recommend a model, but a couple of comments:
What Martin says about viewfinders is dead right.
I currently use an Olympus C310. It has a Supermacro mode which gives a focus down to about an inch. What makes it possible to focus on spiders and their like is the ability to press the buttom half down - this is enough to fix the focus and show the result on the screen. It's intended so you can focus on your subject then move the aim and produce a photo with the subject off-centre but still focussed. But it's great for making sure before you click that the focus has picked up the spider and not the bit of grass it's standing on.
Finally, for close up work, the biggest determiner of sharp focus seems to be light level.
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