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Have only needed to do this once in fairly recent years, used a standard 35mm cameral with remote shutter release and a home made light shield of black painted cardboard.
Used special monochrome film called "high contrast" that was primarily intended for document copying, this gave a much better image than standard film intended for "half tone" views of people or buildings etc.

The developed negatives could be viewed directly, or projected without any need to print them.

The high contrast film was very easy to develop, I managed it fine with very little experience of such work.

Better resolution photos could be achieved with an old style large format camera, but that needed expensive film and a proper photgrapher rather than me.