was looking to digitise my family photos,
Initially looked at multifunction printers which have inbuilt scanners. Want something which will copy them at good quality so i think dpi is important?
Seen some with 1200 to 2400 dpi
Also, a feeder would be great or a scanner that automatically crops the photo- ie. A 6 by 4" without including the white surrounding A4 page.
Saw some multifunctions for around $60.
What do ozbargainers recommend
In my experience any flatbed scanner will scan at higher DPI that the source material (you will see limitations of the physical photo). The exception to this is negatives, which fall into a different category. If you do have negatives, you will get better results by scanning these with a (good) negative scanner. Where a good scanner will differ is colour reproduction, though if the photos are old you will have a bigger issue with the colours fading (or just being bad prints in the first place). Again using negatives works around these issues.
Auto crop /should/ be in any scanner (My $40 multifunction does it).
Final note: If you decide to get them scanned at a store, be careful and perhaps do a trial run, I have done some like this and the quality was appalling.