Picture CD's, Walmart and Kodak, how many MP are the picture

[Canon Fan]

I am not sure about all of that but it sounds right. I know that good scanners are upwards of 4000dpi now but are very costly. My el-cheapo did come with negative/positive scanning ability although I have not worked with it very much. Seemed to do fine just scanning the print for me. The big problem I could see with scanning a bunch of pics via the negatives is that it would be very time consuming. First you must (with my model anyway) mount the neg in a holder being careful to get it straight, then scan it (only 1 at a time) then move on to the next. However I can scan multiple prints at the same time arranged so they fit onto the scan area and crop them apart into seperate files using the included software all at the same time. A more expensive film only scanner would give you the same flexibilty in time savings but would be more brutal to your pocketbook.