With winter coming, I am starting to get ready for my winter activities. One of which is going to be digitizing a collection of old family prints. I was wondering if any of you had any thoughts on how best to digitize a large collection of pictures? I've tried using a Canoscan flatbed scanner, but was underwhelmed by the results. They do have more recent versions out there that are rated a bit better. Some people seem to consider Epson's to be the best, so I am considering one of those.

I've also been playing with taking a picture of the pictures and digitizing the old prints that way. The results aren't bad, but I seem to always get a bit of glare off the photo and I'll have to work on my set up to make sure everything is square.

Have any of you tried this? Any luck with one method or a particular scanner?

For now, I am only trying to digitize prints. Someday I may try slides and negatives, but not at this moment.

Thanks in advance....