I was talking to someone in another forum, and he said he took the following picture with his SD800:
http://www.system-32.com/files/insect.jpg

No EXIF data was saved.

Is it possible to get that kind of detail, that close, on an SD800?

 

This is from steves-digicam.com about the SD800


And take a look at ken rockwell pictures half way down this page...

http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/sd800.htm#perf

 

Go to the Flickr camera finder and search on macro within the SD800 IS. Seems pretty doable to me.

 

Thats my camera

 

i believe it..

 

I've gotten similar shots with my SD700. I don't see any reason why the SD800 should be any different. I think the macro capabilities of these cameras is actually pretty good, when you can get the focusing right. Lack of manual focusing is the only major drawback compared to SLR's, prosumers etc.

 

I agree that looks entirely within the capabilities of the SD800 (I have an SD600).

Something like this wouldn't be --

 

^^ That was taken with your cell phone camera, right?

 

 

That's certainly possible, and I don't consider that macro.
It's a close picture, but in terms of an SLR, you don't need a macro lens to take that sort of picture.

A real macro shot is where you are taking a picture of something that is not much larger than your camera's sensor. I.e. a couple of centimeters long.

 

wtf is that

 

Mosquito?

 

thats a transformer homie. =P

 

 

Can any of you tell what kind of insect that is? It looks like one of those really tiny bees, that's 1-2cm long.

I'm usually not skeptical about people's photos, but this guy has been known to pull some fast ones in the past.

 

dunno, but lets say the bee is 1 cm long.
That would make the picture 12 cm wide, which could be done with non macro lenses.

 

It really doesn't have to do with the size of the object. It has to do with the maginification factor.

I personally don't feel there's a real hard and fast definition of "macro" but the place at which everyone seems to agree you're in macro-land is 1:1 magnification or greater. 1:1 magnification is when your optics are projecting an image on the sensor that is the same size as the real life object. For example, a dime is about 17.5mm in diameter. I'm at 1:1 if my optics are projecting a 17.5mm image of the dime onto my sensor.