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technique is extremely important when shooting jewelry and glass.
Go to a local commercial photographer and have him shoot at least one of each type of piece and teach you (pay extra) as you are doing the shoot with him or her.
I shot all of the commercial work in the packaging industry - mostly high end crystal glass and clear and tinted plastic and it was more a combo of light control, backgrounds, and blended shots at different focal lengths and F stops to get insane pop in your eye tack clear or perfectly esoteric shots I wanted.
I tracked and kept notes and measurements so the next time I had a 1/2 ounce crystal bottle with a gold metal band or cosmetic case, I knew exactly what lighting I wanted, the angles, backdrop color, distance to plane etc.
I shot mostly with Nikon DLSRs with either 18mm or 24 mm lenses - in some cases a 60 mm macro and did distortion correction after the fact. Doing it all again my 24-300 was the only lens I needed with a $200 screw in Cannon macro adapter for some extreme shots. I doubt you need more.
Hint:Sometimes if you have real skill and very flat pieces, a desktop flat bed scanner works great!
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