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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 208088, member: 25&quot;]Some cameras can be set to give a little bleep when in focus.&nbsp; </p><p>If you had a fixed camera stand, you could get someone to set the manual focus correctly just once, then leave it set that way and just place things under the camera, snap, and remove, replace with other stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is possible that you are getting too close for the auto-focus to cope, have you got and are you using a macro-focus setting on your camera, this is usually indicated with a little flower symbol. </p><p>Do not try to photograph anything through plastic. </p><p>Increasing the available light will help, the camera can then use a smaller aperture giving more depth of focus. If you are using a phone camera, it is really not suitable. Good digital cameras a few years old are available for very little money. </p><p>Most of the jewellery items will have very small marks for carat fineness, etc. </p><p>These are very important, so if you have a lot of this stuff to sort, can you borrow a seeing eye person for a short time just to read the tiny&nbsp; stuff. If you are very short of friends and family, you might be able to enlist some free help from a local boy or girl scout troop to help with your sorting, people who join that sort of organisation are usually honest enough not to pop a few valuable items into their pockets. Is there some sort of local blindness support group you could ask for help?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have pretty poor sight myself, which is probably why I am the forum&#039;s major critic of people&#039;s photographs, but there are many fairly simple ways to make major improvemets.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Yes they say b&amp;l 1/10 12kgf 5 1/4</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Probably Bausch and Lomb, and certainly gold filled.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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