Over here at the Enemy of Good Enough we seem to be finding ourselves working on a new type of project every week.  Soundproofing a room for audio recording?  Check.  Building a light stage for video shoots?  Check.  This week?  I found myself needing some high quality shots of some small drill battery packs (for PowerGenix Battery Corp.) without a decent camera or lighting setup on hand.  Shots will only be as good as the camera, and our usual DSLR was out of the shop so I had to use the dinosaur (Nikon CoolPix E990).

So what is the best solution?  Build a lighting box that can deal with the shortfallings of the camera.  I'd found some instructions for a light box online months ago (unfortunately I couldn't find and reproduce them here) so I recreated it from memory.