Welcome Leigh. Great to have you here. Restoring old photo's is an artform all by itself. With computers though it has become a much faster process..IMHO. Good camera's are of course a great benifit to photography but not always essential to creating 'good' photography. Take for instance all the great photography that has been done with low resolution webcams. It is the eye and the mind that produces the art. The camera is the tool that we use to record it. Usually the better the camera, the better the technical quality. Your dad is a very good photographer and he is more than welcome here. Please persuade him to join in... Colm...