fmw
No longer a newbie, moving up!
I think Chris has confused printing dpi with scanning dpi. It is the scanning dpi that, in fact, determine the pixel count and the resolution of the digital image. His scanner will produce 11.5 megapixels on a piece of film large enough to fit every pixel - less on a smaller piece of film and more on a larger one. I generally scan at 1600 dpi and get about a 6 mb file from a 35mm transparency if I scan to a 1:1 file. The result is about the same as a 6mp camera raw image.
Now if you were to print that file without resizing you would get a fprinted image the same size as the original 35mm slide. If you resize to, say, 8 1/2 X 11, you will probably get down to about 400 dpi or so of print resolution without having anything digital visible. The scanner is like the image sensor in the camera except that it reads line by line.
Now if you were to print that file without resizing you would get a fprinted image the same size as the original 35mm slide. If you resize to, say, 8 1/2 X 11, you will probably get down to about 400 dpi or so of print resolution without having anything digital visible. The scanner is like the image sensor in the camera except that it reads line by line.