Newbie- scanning my 35mm negatives

I have bought a canoscan scanner to scan my old 35mm colour negatives. It
does a good job though a little slow to set up each neg.
My question is what format to scan. It gives a choice of TIFF, JPEG AND BMP
and resolutions of 100, 300, 600dpi. I will probably use the scanned images
for viewing on TV and possibly for future printing. I will store them either
on CD or DVD.
Any advice?
Penster

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:06:13 GMT, Penster <xxx DeleteThis @xxx.com> wrote:

>I have bought a canoscan scanner to scan my old 35mm colour negatives. It
>does a good job though a little slow to set up each neg.
>My question is what format to scan. It gives a choice of TIFF, JPEG AND BMP
>and resolutions of 100, 300, 600dpi.

Even at 600dpi for a 35mm negative is a bit small. Just about right for the
web, but a bit low for printing.

And for the web you'd want JPEG.

If you have lots of negatives, a film scanner makes more sense than one
designed to scan paper.

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).