My father is a semi-retired, semi-professional photographer and has gone digital since 2003. However, he has over 20,000 prints (mainly 5" x 7.5") in albums which he now wants to digitise. He is looking for a good quality flatbed scanner that has the option of also scanning some negatives. He might consider a dedicated film scanner in time but scanning negatives would be immensely time consuming for him.
Last time I looked at flatbed scanners Epson was the best choice with Canon producing some excellent products but mainly targeted at the home user. However, like everything in IT I expect a lot has changed since I last looked. Any recommendations? Budget wise I'm thinking £300 (ish) but cost is less of a consideration.
Also how best does he deal with photographs taken from an album where self-adhesive photo mounts were used. Getting them off is easy enough with a sharp knife but then the reverse of the photo is all sticky. Any practical suggestions would be appreciated.


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I've been eyeing up the epson 4490-ish region of flatbed scanners for some time, meaning to archive old photos. Good to see some scans in. Some useful stuff on persuading the uninitiated that the digital version will actually be quite good!
