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It might be possible with infrared, depending upon what your "treasure" is. The IR may give a different signal if the ground is still disturbed, or different vegetation is growing because the ground was disturbed. Otherwise, I would suggest going to the local geology department at a university and have them do a ground penetrating radar survey.

Happy new year As you probably know, there are no camera settings I can recommend, as every shot requires different settings, as a general rule I tend to walk round in aperture mode, and just adjust the aperture to what I think each shot requires, and the ISO if the light requires it. Also without knowing what you want to shoot I can't recommend lenses either. Except the canon 50mm f1.8, which is the best value canon lens in my opinion. Photoshop skills are also very varied, and it takes a while to get used to the software if you are learning. I would recommend a course at a local college to start with. Or look on YouTube for tutorials. Gimp is a free software very similar to photoshop. Good luck

I have been in photography for many years, and I know of no way to find a buried object with either a film camera or a digital camera. Cameras only take images of what they can "see". Cameras cannot see beneath the ground, only the surface. A metal detector is your best bet.

If you knew what methods they were using for things such as that, you would croak. You are not going to walk around with a Pentax and do it, but they can search areas with satellites and certain types of filters to identify "moved" soil. The have located rivers under the Sahara.

Metal detectors for metal.

This technique in the link below finds buried bodies. I think it was featured on the TV show "Forensic Files" in one story.

http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/storie...

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