Equipment Advice: Shooting photos for a brochure

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I’m trying to put together a company brochure and need to take some decent photo's of our products. We design electronic equipment, so the majority of shots will be of printed circuit boards (PCB's) or boxed products.

To date, I've been taking photos with the PCB’s on a table cloth using natural light and/or internal camera flash. None of which are too successful. I find I have to take an angled photo or the flash reflects off the PCB causing a ‘hot spot’ – I would prefer a head on photo.

I've been looking at the Digital Shooting Tables page at www.warehouseexpress.com, but I presume I would need some additional lighting? If so, what would be recommended? Or do I just buy a better flash?

Ive also looked at the ProVersatile Light Tents from http://www.studioflash.co.uk/ but am not quite sure how you light these?

I guess for all this work the camera should be tripod mounted, preferably with an external shutter release?

What lens would normally be used for this sort of work?

I have the following - Canon 30D, 24-105L, kit and 10-22 lens.
 
That looks interesting Steep.

The PCB's tend to be no bigger than A4 footprint, smallest ones tend to be 50mm x30mm. Though there are always exceptions being bigger or smaller than those sizes! I think most would fit into the 40x40x40 offered by that studio.

Where would you place a light using that studio?
 
Place the light/s outside shining through the walls or down through the top.

On the subject of lights, I notice Lidls are doing a twin 500w halogen stand for £14.99 next week. I remember somebody saying if you take out the 500w bulbs and replace them with 250w ones you get some pretty fair studio lights.
 
i have a maplin softbox and it works a treat!
 
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