they whom i call William Robb wrote:
Combine this with the fact that most prints aren't taken with the best cameras, the best lenses, or the finest grained film, and there really isn't any advantage to a flatbed scanner over a modern 14mp or greater DSLR in terms of image quality when copying prints.
i have some experience with digitizing prints with both scanners and with digital cameras; we did about 2200 of them a few years ago; using a so-so 4MP camera on a copy stand was definitely faster, and probably captured 90% of what was in the print; a decent scanner did a better job with the dynamic range, and delivered a much flatter field with no distortion; however prints on the scanner were harder to square up (many prints weren't square on the paper), and it took about 3x as long in production mode to scan vs. snap; which is all to say there are trade-offs, particularly if you don't have an appropriate lens on the camera
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