Smallest Dedicated fixed lens Macro Camera, opinions?

[68degrees]

Is there a fixed lens small camera made primarily for macro?

 

[jsrockit]

Digital or film?

Sigma DP3? But it doesn't do 1:1 iirc.

 

[burancap]

Not dedicated, but the macro on the Ricoh GRD series (I have a III) is easy to enable with a button press and is excellent, IMHO.

 

[Tarocco]

If you're referring to true macro ie. 1:1 or high magnifications, you don't need a dedicated macro camera - just a good fixed lens small sensor camera and a few high quality achromats. See here:

http://beingmark.com/macro-illustrated/

Otherwise I don't know of any fixed lens cameras with true macro capability.

The size limitation will always be a flash setup that is suitably diffused - this will be almost essential for creating sharp handheld images at high magnification.

 

[Greyscale]

The original Yashica Dental Eye, based on the Electro 35 G. They are very rare, though.

 

[Brian Legge]

Olympus XA4? 😉

 

[Samouraï]

The Sigma DP3. 50mm f/2.8 macro. Particularly amazing resolution. I don't think there is a fixed-lens compact that can even begin to compare. Its resolution approaches that of medium format film/Nikon D800.
It's 1:3, though...