[Jewelry making - Article 00498] - [Orchid] Photographing stock?

[christopher]

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Hi folks

    Not really a serious problem , more of an irritation.., our
    companies stock stock control program allows for easy attachement of
    photographs of the pieces being put into stock , which also makes it
    possible to print the valuation of the pice being sold with a picture
    of it.. 

    Now the problem.. we bought commercial lightboxes and digital
    cameras to photograph the pieces in an easy way, so that any of the
    admin staff could easily place a pice in the box.. click and bang you
    got the pic on the pc, rename it to the stock code and bobs your
    uncle. Excepting that the pics come out yellow  with the light on..
    too dark with the light off, if we replace the halogen lamp with a
    fluorescent one everything hues blue.. the best pics we have taken so
    far have actually been done in natural sunlight with a low end cheap
    creative webcam. The webcam however has no depth of field, so you
    focus on the stones on the top and lose all the side details of the
    ring etc. 

    Does anyone have a homemade lightbox and or method of rapidly taking
    many photographs of jewellery with the pieces not looking jaundiced
    or frozen blue.. 

    The pics do not ned to be advertising quality but when they get
    printed one would hope to at least in a year or two when they get
    stolen** , we can look at the valuation images and remake the pieces
    with a fairly good enough idea of what the ring looked like. 

    Any help in this regard will be much appreciated. 

chris
** im in Africa, what can I say??-

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