well, i have like a 3.2 MP samsung. it's pretty cheap and has the potential to take very nice pictures. the main thing you want, if you're not able to use a tripod, is a fast shutter speed. the faster the shutter speed the quicker the image is burned and the least amount of time there is for your hand to wobble or screw something up.

one thing i hate about mine, is if you turn the flash off, it turns the shutter speed down to like 2 seconds! so it's very blurry if you can't use something to keep your hand steady. i almost always have the flash on, and because of this i can't get the camera very close. so what i do, is i place the animal in an area where it is not bright ( but not dark). pick a good spot to anchor my arm so it doesn't move very much. zoom in fully with the ( micro) setting which usually looks like a flower, and the macro ( larger) setting would be a picture of mountains or something on the camera.

then i snap, i change angles a lot and just keep snapping. out of about 25 pictures i may only have a few really good ones on the highest quality setting worth keeping.

soooo... basically

play with lighting

play with shutter speeds

play with using full zoom for close ups ( and just move further away) so the flash doesn't bleach out the color

STAY VERY VERY STEADY.

this picture was taken with a 120 dollar samsung camera ( but i'm telling you, MOST pictures don't look real great and i just go through them all to find the best ones.

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