But where and how best to make digital copies of old photos? I have interesting photos of artists, happy to lay out if I can digitize.

A simple scan can not?

:confused:
With this problem I wrestle nearly 10 years. Over the years, came to the conclusion that some pasty written works from my collection, especially dark colors, without the "las" and "light" photograph is simply impossible. By the way, a professional whose services I once used, this problem is also not decided. Part of the issue can be solved by reducing, adjusting svetopotok, but then the picture turns out darker than it really is. So often had to simply refuse to play the printing work. I think that in this case can help the computer editing. I wonder, can help with a large aperture lens?

The problem is indeed serious.
In all there are some nuances.
First of all, there are paintings and old. With dull varnish. Sometimes - with illuminated.
I shoot in natural lighting, under 60 degrees, with a tripod, remote control.

Icon of "breaking through" artificial lateral (both sides) lighting through the umbrella of white. Before shooting, rubbed my (old) icons (without peeling) rast.maslom.

Still have to haul color photoshop.
Even after scanning.

In any more or less "advanced" photo studio. :)

  Here's an idea! What can happen? I somehow never thought about it.

I think so. :D
Scan, podfotoshopit, to give the contrast a bit if the faded prints, you can increase, by the way ...

 Thanks, Cyril. It's me slowpoke, I've never had never scan photo .:) "If everything will lay out the Photo section of artists."

I scanned my scanner scanners Cruse.Arhivnye firm Cruse (Germany) designed to capture different linear size and thickness of archival, valuable and historical materials, pictures.
http://www.cruse.ru/firms/cruse1/sts...a3d853d8000206
http://lisow.ruprom.net/p63974-skane...sionalnye.html
In Moscow, is one machine. Pevoshodit quality images made camera Phase one. And the image is not distorted by the lens.
http://www.phaseone.com

That same bourgeois ... Think of ... :eek: