scanning

I wish to digitise approx 3-400 old family photos. Both B&W (from the early 1900s) and right through to colour of the 60s and 70s Which scanner would be best? Which software for retouching/cleaning up images? I would want to do true image (warts and all) and then enhance a copy. I have...

Went for 2nd scan of the new addition to the family.. which is due later this year. The nice people at the hospital gave us a picture of the ultrasound scan. I'm guessing the paper is some kind of thermal paper, and i noticed big signs around the ward telling us that laminating will "destroy"...