[Milsurplus] scanning old photos/books

[barry tuttleman]

i have a small collection of older military unit history books; i 
started w/ this one entitled "Historical & Pictorial Review, 40th
Infantry Division, Army of the United States, San Luis Obispo, 1941"
and attempted to scan some of the radio/communications/weapons/vehicles
photos - here's an example from this work:

http://home.att.net/~btuttleman1/radio1.jpg

my eyes are constantly degrading, and this scan appears pretty "grainy"
and not very clear to me, but when comparing it to the original it kind
of looks pretty similar; anyone (robert?) have any ideas on scanner
settings for older photos - this one was done in .jpg format @ 200 dpi;
i tried it at other resolutions, but it only appeared to make the size
(memory-wise) much larger, not clearer - so i'm thinking that this is 
what i'm going to get out of these scans.  greyscale sent the size of
the photo thru my roof.

some of these photos might prove very interesting as far as what was in
use at the time.

tnx,
barry
carson city nv

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Barry Tuttleman
Carson City, Nevada

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