I'm on a quest to improve my pictures. First up, I'll be attempting to put together a lightbox. But the camera I have isn't all that great..just a cheap Olympus Camedia of some sort that's a few years old. The picture quality was so-so at best when it came to taking pictures. sometimes I'd get a really good one (after taking about 30 bad ones), but mostly I got ones that were only "ok" for quality, and something seems to have gone off with the focus. I have some pieces of jewelry that I can't seem to get good pictures of at all.
So I'm looking for a good digital camera that's not too expensive (I think about $250 would have to be my limit..saving for a car and all that, can't drop a lot of cash right now), but will still take good pictures once I have a good lighting set-up and some practice. Does anyone have a recommendation? anything I should look for, or specifically avoid?
-Amber.