Your compact camera can't do jewellery photography

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So yeah, I think saying you can't take pictures with a compact is nonsense, so long as the compact has some ability to manually control settings.

Seems to be mostly a consensus on that - although I note one person has voted for a compact with no manual mode, I'd really like to hear their input too if possible?

I use a Nikon D5000 - I decided I would rather buy lenses than worry about the quickly-obsolete camera body; my standard (no pun intended) lens for jewellery is now a 105mm macro although I have a couple of others too.

BTW Lauren - what are you using for a background on yours? I can't work out which is background and which is post-process.