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It depends on how good of picture quality you want. For highest quality I would get a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II DSLR Camera along with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro Lens. If you can not get very close to your subject you might want to go with a Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L USM Macro Lens. The best setup would cost around 9,000 to 10,000 dollars. If you do not have a huge budget I would go with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi with a Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens. Which would run around 1500 dollars. Both setups would give you higher picture quality than of a point and shoot digital camera.

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There is probably no "best" camera for this purpose. The other factors involved, such as your skill at lighting, protecting the subject from wind (especially in the case of wild flowers) and so forth are more important by far than the device used to make the image -- as they are in all other photographic efforts. A good photographer will make good pictures with a cheap camera. An unskillful one will produce garbage from a Hasselblad.

The "super-zoom" cameras such as the Sony H5 (only for example) seem to give the best macro results in consumer-grade cameras because they allow you to get good magnification while remaining some distance from the subject.

For what it's worth, if I were purchasing a compact camera it would be the Canon Powershot G9. The G10 is overkill, and the resolution is pushing the capacity of the sensor.

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