How to digitalize old photos

[jorgemonkey]

Hi! Due to the recent passing of my grandfather, my family has come across a treasure chest of photos of my Grandfather as a child growing up as well as him in later years. My question is would it be best to scan these, or to take a picture of them. My dad has a pretty decent scanner that we can use for the scanning, or I'd probably be the one to take pictures of the photos. Thanks!

[another view]

Scanning would be best. You could do it with a camera, but the camera would have to be level in both directions, and exactly centered over the print or you'll get some perspective distortion. With a scanner, you don't need to worry about any of that...