Quote Originally Posted by kaj621
hey.. i know how to turn the flower icon on and i know that it is very useful for close up shots.. but is the flower icon the same thing as a macro mode, or a super macro mode???
Yes. You may not have a super macro, my camera is the only one I have ever seen with it (but its five years old, so I would assume a new one would).

Have you been using that mode and are still not getting the type of pictures that you want? Or have you not been using that mode?