It depends upon your idea of photogenic. I lived in Amarillo for 13 years. Trees are rarely seen outside of towns. When you do see one it is more than likely a mesquite tree/bush. Green vegitation is also rare.

Cadillac Ranch west of Amarillo is a popular photo destination.

South of Amarillo by Canyon, TX is Palo Duro Canyon State Park, a smaller version of Grand Canyon. It has a road which winds along the bottom and has some nice photo opportunities. Lighthouse Rock makes for great photos.

Something unique to West Texas and maybe something to visit are the cattle feedlots in Hereford, TX.

Safe travels,
John

My CITI card offers a virtual account number. The merchant doesn't see my credit card information. I use it when I do a trial offer or a merchant I'm not familiar with. I can set the amount and / or time the card is good for. No more trying to remember to cancel trial offers.

Before you try and remove the plastic cover get the best scan possible of the photo. The photo may get damaged and the resulting scan may be worse than with the cover still on.

Thank you, that is what I would want to know

I have a Nikon Cool Scan 9000 but my laptop does not have the 1394 fire wire connection needed to use it. I'm planning on getting a desktop from Puget Systems but that won't be until the first of the year.

I do a lot of family history and the slides were my dad's. I don't know some of the people in them so I would like to photograph the slides so some of my older relatives who aren't local can identify them. With their advanced age, distance and current Covid situation I would like this to happen soon. With my current computer situation I feel taking a photograph would be the quickest solution until I can properly scan them. Because of this is why I posted the original question about source light color and brightness if I was to make my own light box

I have a lot of slides and also early 1900's black and white negatives that need to be converted to digital. I am wanting to make or purchase a light box or light table so that I can photograph the slides.

My question concerns the light source behind the slide. Most sources say to use a daylight ( 5K - 6K) bulb or led. Nothing is ever mentioned about the brightness or lumens needed to accurately reproduce the slide. Daylight bulbs I have seen range from 500 to 2000 lumens. If to dim the colors can't be seen and if to bright the colors will appear washed out.

Is there a correct brightness for this or is it just personal preference and trial-and-error?

I do a lot of family history and like to have pictures to go with names. I might have the opportunity to view a relatives old family photos and possibly copy them. I won't know what the photos are until I see them and am unsure how much time I will have to access them. I have a scanner but think photographing them might be faster if I'm not allowed much time.

I have a Sony a6500 with a FE 1.8/50 lens and a FE 3.5-5.6 /28-70 lens. My setup is a tripod with a ball head pointing the camera down with the photos being on a gray board with two Emart Photo Studio 5500K full spectrum lights off to the sides.

Will one lens be better than the other in this situation? Does anyone have any tips for taking photos of old pictures?

Thanks
John

Canon TS9120

In the past I have had good luck with a Canon camera and scanner. I bought a Canon TS9120 about 9 months ago based upon the great reviews I was reading about the printer. I used it for miscellaneous color printing and some scanning. After using it for a couple of months I wish I had never bought it.

I printed approximately 50 pages and scanned about 20 images. The print and scan quality was very good. The problems are the paper output tray door (behind the touch screen) and its excessive use of ink. It frequently said to push the paper output tray door closed before it would print. After about 30 pages, some of the cartridges were already low. When one of the color cartridges is low it will not print until every cartridge that is low is refilled. It also wouldn’t scan as I kept getting the low ink message every time I wanted to scan something. I had Costco refill 2 of the cartridges. After installing them, a printer error showed. I don’t remember the exact message but basically that it detected a non Canon cartridge was installed. So it was useless at that point. After only 30 pages I was forced to purchase the expensive Canon cartridges to get it to print and scan. That worked but it only lasted about 20 more pages until I got another low cartridge error message and the printer was useless again.

That was the point I vowed to never purchase another Canon product. If you are looking for a printer with a healthy appetite for ink then by all means purchase the TS9120. Otherwise look elsewhere.

Im considering a Nikon slide scanner to scan my dad's slide collection. Parallax was mentioned in one of the posts. What is parallax?