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Posted by Audrey Turner on 4/7/2007, 6:46 am, in reply to "Re: Digital cameras" This year I bought a Nikon D40, a digital SLR, with macro setting, and the difference is amazing. I'm still learning how to use it fully, but my flower shots, even with the macro setting and auto focus, are so much better than before. I really would recommend a digital SLR if you are going to be photographing a lot of small stuff. They aren't that expensive anymore, and you can pick some up 2nd hand online quite cheaply, especially just after a new version of something comes out. For example the Nikon D40 is cheap at the moment as the D40X has recently come out.
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I have previously used a Nikon coolpix 5700 which is a compact, for flower photography and Peter is 100% correct about the contrast problem with green subjects.
It was a great camera for a lot of things, and I do still use it, but it was a complete pain when trying to photograph a small item against a similar coloured background. I used to try the trick with the contrasting coloured card to get the focus, then remove the card, which works up to a point, but isn't satisfactory.
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