At the risk of turning this into a photography thread... the OP is part of the problem (!)...
I'm not sure why I am part of the problem, I was only trying to get across that you don't need an expensive rig to take decent shots of guns. This is the exact model camera that I use, Buy Now for 30 bucks:
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and like I said, mine is pretty old, maybe 12-15 years (of course it was more expensive when new, maybe $250 at Walmart, and there have been many upgraded models come along since). It's so old the serial output port is
mini-USB. But it gets the job done. It has full manual control as well as auto-everything if needed. My bench is set up with a random collection of 4 lights pointed up at the acoustical tiled basement ceiling, reflecting down to the bench. My tripod was inherited from my dad, he probably bought it in the 1950's, but it ain't broke so doesn't need fixin'. I took a bunch of test pics years ago with different manual settings and settled on simulated "film speed" of ISO 100 (pretty normal, not high speed), F5.6 aperture (fairly wide for lower light and better depth of field), and 1/8 second shutter speed (fairly slow for the lower light - and also why the tripod is recommended). My freebie post-processing program is for final tweaks that may have been introduced by taking pics in the day when excess daylight bleeds in through the blinds, or for compensating for subject variation depending on whether the gun is blue (may require a "+" click on gamma correction) or stainless (may require "-" gamma). And even though the camera is only 5.1MP, the pics are still too large for web presentation so after cropping out the excess background, I still have to shrink them down to 800 pixel width,
Cell phones can take great pictures. My phone is a Galaxy S22 Ultra and has so many cameras that I lost track of all the resolutions, but I think the top dog is 108 MP. That's way more than needed to take good pics of small objects at a reasonable size for web viewing, and the file sizes are correspondingly huge. By the time you shrink those down to size, I can't imagine the resolution being any better cuz pixels are pixels and everything gets averaged and approximated when resizing.
I stand by my suggestion that the number 1 best advice for gun pics is to use the macro mode on whatever camera you have so that it can properly focus on close objects.
