Congrats to samw!!

[Samw]

Originally Posted by tkhawaja

And your shot proves it. It doesn't take a $1000 dollar camera to take great macro shots.

Actually, I did spend about $1,000 with taxes added 1.5 years ago for my S40. At that time, for an extra $100, I could have gotten a G2 for really good Macro. The Powershot S40 has 2 known limitations and that is poor macro and poor flash. The benefit of the S40 over the G2 is the compact size.