Scanning Best Practice

[Deleted member 49549]

Hi all,

i have a few hundred old family pictures that i intend to scan. They are mostly from the 40's to the 80's so a wide variety of print types. What scanning settings would you use, erring on the side of quality.

My first thoughts are:-

• anything black and white, scan at 1200dpi 24 bit tiff
• anything colour scanned at 600dpi 24bit tiff.

using a v500 epson scanner, vuescan scanning software and lightroom 4 beta to tag and map the scans.

 

[Deleted member 49549]

Bump - any experienced scanners out there willing to share their experience?

 

[photoimaging]

Depends on your scanner, I scan old pics on a Umax pro A3 scanner at 300dpi/600dpi and get superb results, I scan everything as RGB making b&w conversions in Photoshop.

That's my way of working and it works for me and my business, others may chip in with their preferred methods......just saying what works for me for the past 18 years.