Canon seems to think it ought to take good close-up photos. My Canon isn't an elph, but it does okay.
Before I got my camera, I was given the advice to take practice marble shots with whatever camera I was thinking of buying. I didn't follow the advice. My main complaint with my Canon is that when I take flash photos I get rings of white dots on the marbles. There are some on the photo below. The model I'm using is PowerShot SX170 IS.