Is the message coming from your scanner software or your operating system? What are you planning to do with your scans that requires such a high ppi?

I had just purchased the scanner and I wanted to explore what I could do with my new toy, and was also curious what effects and how large I could make a print by scanning at a high ppi level.

I'm more curious what film scanner offers that resolution. It sounds like an interpolated number. What's the optical resolution? Most current film scanners are 4000PPI and the Minolta is 5400PPI.

It makes a big difference what you are scanning. If doing colour slides 3200 dpi will print a nice 8x10. for that matter 2400 would. If scanning prints high resolution does not help. When doing BW negative I always scanned at 3200 then after processing my image and sizing it for print I would then print at 300dpi. I have had 16x20 prints made from 4000dpi scanns.

Larry,
I am using a Plustek scanner, I was trying to purchase an Konica Minolta however I could not get one because every where I looked they were out of stock, I figured for $189 if I did not like it oh well.
I probably will never need a scan resolution that high, I was seeing what I could do.
Monte,
I appreciate your answer it helps me a little, so what I am getting from you is that I should scan the negative as if I were going to be printing at 8x10?
I was actually hoping that David Brooks would chime in and give me more insight on this as he has tested several different scanners and seems to know the ins and outs of scanners.
I would love to get more of your insight on this Monte as it would seem you and I scan film for somewhat of the same reasons.
Martin

Martin,

A very affordable 35mm dedicated scanner with great software is the Umax PL270 I wrote a report on for Shutterbug last year. Take a look in our web site archives for the report at - http://www.shutterbug.net/test_reports/0705umax/index.html

Yes, Konica Minolta exited the business. Too bad, they made good scanners. FWIW, David's review was one of the motivating factors for buying this scanner. I managed to get one of the last 5400 Elite IIs - it is a fantastic scanner. If you can find one used on eBay I would go for it - just be aware there is a 5400 (older model) as well as the 5400 Elite II.

Frankly, I only use my scanner for making web images. For those images I want printed, I have them drum scanned by West Coast Imaging. I find that I can easily get a 30x40 out of a 325MB scan (about 2500 dpi), onto Fuji Crystal Archive.