Hi,
I was reading that the cp4500 can close focus down to 2cm, or 0.8 inches.
Is there another digital camera to match that, both in quality of image produced and keeping within the same price range, or even cheaper?
Thanks,
tracker
Yes! its discontinued little brother the coolpix 3500 focuses down to 0.5 inch from lens front in macro mode. This was on sale from Jessops about nine months ago for £199. so there may perhaps be some about second hand. It's a swivel camera like the 4500 but with a simplified menu and it has no optical viewfinder, only an electronic one but the picture quality from its 3.2 million pixels is, as you would expect from a Nikon, very good. I have printed very sharp A4 size photos from it fairly regularly. There are no means of digiscoping etc., with it as no filter thread is on its very small swivelling lens holder. However perhaps more useful is that it is a genuinely pocketable little camera and I frequently have mine on me to save carrying a lot of weight as it slip easily into a jacket or coat pocket
My Fuji S602 focuses down to almost touching the object and its flash still illuminates unbelievable well. I don't know how they do it - when I think back to my SLR days with expensive macro tubes and ring flash - phew!