A black and white photo RGB or grayscale whats the best?

a black and white photo scan it as RGB or grayscale whats the best?

grayscale image would have smaller image size. And in Photoshop Elements you can always convert grayscale images to RGB.
Thus I would advice to scan the photograph in grayscale.

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