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I recently got myself the new HP Scanjet 4670 see-thru vertical scanner to digitize my old paper photos.

The advantage of this model is that gravity pulls the pictures into the right position in vertical mode and that the scanner can be detached from its base so you can scan any possible flat surface. Another plus is the software which is non-intrusive, efficient for scanning large amounts of pictures and nicely crops them. Scanning happens very fast and silent.

My first task was to scan my 300 photos I had taken in Japan in 1998 and I am pleased with the result:

One negative point is that the device has a slight exposure-problem at the lowest one centimeter, where each picture rests in vertical mode: