[christer]

No, the scanner has not fallen onto my head. Instead I am trying to figure out which setting that gives the best scans. Is there anyone out there with some good suggestions?

Below, I have sanned the same picture with four different settings:
1) 300 dpi, colour, brightness=0 and contrast=0
2) 300 dpi, colour, brightness=0 and contrast=1
3) 300 dpi, colour, brightness=1 and contrast=0
4) 300 dpi, colour, brightness=1 and contrast=1

* I can barely see any difference between these four settings myself.
* The original pictures are black and white.
* I have tried to scan them in greyscale mode, but from what I can see, that only makes the scanned pictures look worse.
* The scanner is a HP Scanjet 5300C (max 1200 dpi)
* My opinion is that if I choose to scan the photos in 600 dpi then the result will not become any better.

Are the scanned pictures as good as they can get, or can I somehow make them look even better?
(Yes, I do plan to crop them!)

Thanks in advance.

[christer]

300 dpi, colour, brightness=0 and contrast=0

[christer]

300 dpi, colour, brightness=0 and contrast=1

[christer]

300 dpi, colour, brightness=1 and contrast=0

[christer]

300 dpi, colour, brightness=1 and contrast=1

[Alaskan_TA]

With clear images like these the scanner light settings do not matter much.

Even with bad images, I will not adjust them with the scanner itself, I will do that after the fact with photo software after cropping.

300dpi is fine for full page scans.

If you wanted to isolate each photo frame, then 600 would be better & your cropped images would show better. That would take a lot of time though.

[christer]

Ok. Thanks!