Anyone here used them or played with them.  Trying to setup something small and simple to take product shots.  Things like case fans, cables and stuff like that.

Ive seen a few that are really massive but Ive no idea what to look for or go for lights wise.

Using a Nikon D100 with a AF Micro Nikkor 60Mm 1:2.6 lense

tia

White sheet, a bit of wood for a frame, and some normal desk lamps.

Sorted.

get a cardboard box thats slightly bigger than A4 and cut out slightly smaller than A4 holes in said box, tape some white paper (A4) over holes, few table lamps, quick White balance and your set

or get 3 sheets of paper fold each in half staple them together to form 3 sides of a cube, set WB, use flash,  then tweak contrast and or curves in photoshop

I used the last method to take this shot:

Just come across this in the post today
http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/level5/module.jsp?moduleId=cpc/469178.xml

any thoughts?

Thanks for the links everyone, this is just what I was looking for

Alien8
did you really use flash on that because you dont seem to have the "flash spot" when you used yours??

Diffusers, or bounced flash stop the flash spot.

Also the photoshop "burn" brush

 
Light tents? Pffft

Single (bounced) flash gun and some card is all you need...