What's the best way to copy a big poster and print it out?

I'm doing a big art project (around 5ft by 5ft), where I'm going to draw stuff out by hand, and would like to make a copy of that project by scanning it into the computer, or taking high-res photos of the project and compiling them together in the computer, and then printing the image out at that size, or bigger. So, I will have the original, 5x5ft, and a printed copy.
What's the best way of doing this?
I hear that vector images are ideal for this, so is Illustrator recommended for this?
I know it's a vector graphics program, but is there any way I can take a bitmap image from a scan or photo, and somehow turn it into a vector? If this is not possible, what recommendations would you have?
I have Illustrator CS2.

Take the photo in one shot by a camera with 24MP, e.g.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d3x.htm
This should be sufficient for a poster reproduction 5ft square
as a raster image.
For vectorizing one doesn't need high resolution (it's often
recommended to blur the source image).
Perspective and lens corrections can be applied by Photoshop,
but the lighting should be well balanced.
Barrel distortion by wide angle lens is really no problem.
Plenty examples:
All photos here were taken without tripod by a 170 Euro camera.
http://www.fho-emden.de/~hoffmann/andalusien13032010.pdf
Especially see p.20, a photo (with flash) of an exhibition photo,
viewing direction not orthogonal to the object, then perspectively
and lens-distortion corrected.
(The PDF shows the photos heavily downsampled).
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

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