Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

I use a macro setting on the camera, with flash, but one unusual trick -
I put a piece of white paper in front of the flash, angled down to face
the PCB. That way, instead of getting flare from point reflections of
the flash, I get a uniform ambient light.

For unpopulated PCBs, I usually end up using my scanner, although gEDA's
pcb layout package has a photorealistic output exporter that is a lot
easier to use.