Best Photo Scanner?

interesteddad
Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:52:20 +0000

Yeah, the only reason I would scan at higher than 300 dpi would be if I were planning to enlarge the photo for printing.

A 4 in x 5 in print scanned at 300 dpi is going to give you enough resoution for magazine quality printing or for high-def TV display. I can’t think of any reason you’d need more resolution than that. What scanning at 1200 dpi would do is let you blow up a quarter of that photo to full size, but the portion you are using would still end up at 300 dpi.