On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:08:50 -0500,
wrote:
> I have abt 100 family photos of various shapes and
> sizes (old) that Id like to have scanned and digitized
>
> I don't have the time or equip to do myself. No
> computer equio at home at all. Zip!
>
> Any advise on services that can do this?
I recently took some pictures of several other family members' old
prints, only about a dozen all told. One set was using a DSLR on a
tripod with the the photos held securely. For the other set (taken
in another home) the pictures were placed on the carpet and shot
using a P&S, handheld. Both sets came out very good, and while a
professional service may have done a slightly better job, the
results I got were hard to distinguish from the originals. The P&S
had the easier job, since the shots were B&W and very old. At the
time the pictures were originally taken, there may have been a
barbershop quartet singing in the background.

One was about 80
years old, the others quite a bit older.
If you want to test this with a picture or two, I'd suggest using
a tripod and not using the camera's flash, as glare can cause severe
image problems. Even a very cheap tripod should work well, but
might require you to use the camera's built-in shutter time delay.