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I am looking for a camera with a macro function to photograph my work.  I had a 18 or 20 megapixel Sony point and shoot that worked great for super close pics, but lost it in a fire.  Dont remember the model but it was a pocket sized camera I could zoom and focus on pallet stones with excellent definition.   It was less than $200 US.   Now I can’t find a camera that will do the job for less than $500  Any suggestions?

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Mark uses Panasonic micro four thirds  (as I do, but Olympus), and then switched to Canon full frame I think.

My personal finding is that stands and lighting are far more important than camera and lenses. For the latest and better I suggest  you browse dpreview.com

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On 8/18/2019 at 1:47 PM, jdm said:

My personal finding is that stands and lighting are far more important than camera and lenses. For the latest and better I suggest  you browse dpreview.com

I agree with this, a good lighting makes wounders.
Usually when I post here I take a quick picture with my phone and the 21Mp is quite fair and the files are small enough to upload.
But a camera, correct lighting and a macro is what it takes to do some good movement por*.
This pictures is just a part of a picture since I can't upload the complete one (Camera is a Sony A7R II 42,4 Mp so the files  becomes large) but one gets what the difference in ligting do compared to my phone ones, this is just a part of the picture, it is just over 800k large! (or small).....
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Well I was actually about to compare two cameras just to show how much improvement one can get with a good lighting but for some reason I just can't find the second camera a much cheaper SONY A37Y with macro lens too but for a fraction of the price. 
Guess I will not do that after all  :(

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There is a lens addon that allows a normal lens to be used as a macro lens, you just need to know what is the thread size of the outer ring. This would probably not work on point and shoot cameras though. Its pretty cheap too, I think I paid around $25 for the one I have but I dont remember where I got it from.

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