What camera should I get?

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You should try the Raynox-250 adapter on your Canon bridge. I found zero minimum macro quite limiting. I mean how many subjects are going to let you get that close? The Raynox changes all that and if you dedicate a back pant pocket to it alone, is dead easy and quick to plop on.

Also – no macro shooting with the TG-7? Sounds like a huge waste of random opportunities to me!

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My primary interest for macro are mosses (I do take photos of liverworts, hornworts and lichen as well). I use TG-7 for stacked focus macro with 1.2 and 4x zoom. When there are lots of protruding stems some gets blurry, TG-7 has minimum focal length of 1 cm. With the SX70 I can still get that photo just no stacking. Zero minimum means no limits.
For insect photos, I tried focus bracketing on TG-7 and zooming in with the SX70, from 30 - 50 cm. The results were fine, not quite great. I need to practice more, both cameras are new to me. I will look up Raynox as well.

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Another stacking trick I discovered is to just shoot a slow ‘scan’ 4K video of the subject and then later in a vid editor, go hunting for best frames to make a stack. In a 5 sec clip you’ll have 150 frames to choose from. Like this one, which remains my rarest find on iNat (just me!).

Lake (Winter) midge
Lake (Winter) midge1920×1316 163 KB

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I’m interested most in plants than in birds, but I’d like to photograph insects as well. I also like marine life but then I’d need a whole different camera for those. My favourite kind of photography is landscape photography.