Newbie: Negative Scanning Questions

I was interested in making digital prints from some of my old 35mm negatives and am seeking some scanning advice. My experience with digital photography so far has only been with making low resolution scans of

for webpages. My equipment is Adobe Photoshop, a HP ScanJet 4570c with negative adapter (yes I realize it’s not a true negative scanner like the better Nikon’s and Minolta’s) and a Cannon i470D bubblejet printer. I

want to make the best occasional family prints I can with this hardware & software in printing 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10 photos.
The scanner is capable of 2400 dpi and the resolution of the printer is

in black and 4800×1200 in color.
1) My first question involves the scanning format…should I save

scan as a TIF, compressed TIF, JPEG or GIF? Perhaps I should save it

it) as a TIF and do the editing of it and saving it as a JPEG to print?

the edited JPEG)
2) My second question involves the resolution setting of the

Keeping in mind that I will be doing 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10 and given that the maximum resolution of the printer is 4800 x 1200dpi, should I scan the

negatives at the full 2400 or is that going too far? The size of the file isn’t really a concern if I can get higher quality prints using the high scanner resolution. But, if it the resulting print at 8×10 will look

the same with a smaller scanner resolution, then I’d prefer to use the

setting to reduce computer processing time and space.
Any thoughts to the above questions are appreciated. Thanks.

1) My first question involves the scanning format…should I
save the scan as a TIF, compressed TIF, JPEG or GIF? Perhaps I should save it (archive it) as a TIF and do the editing of it and saving it as a JPEG to print? (print the edited JPEG).

2) My second question involves the resolution setting of the scanner. Keeping in mind that I will be doing 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10 and given that the maximum resolution of the printer is 4800 x 1200dpi, should I scan the 35mm negatives at the full 2400 or is that going too far? The size of the file isn’t really a concern if I can get higher quality prints using the high scanner resolution. But, if it the resulting print at 8×10 will look exactly the same with a smaller scanner resolution, then I’d prefer to use the smaller setting to reduce computer processing time and space.

above questions are appreciated. Thanks.

1) My first question involves the scanning format…should I save the scan as a TIF, compressed TIF, JPEG or GIF? Perhaps I should save it (archive it) as a TIF and do the editing of it and saving it as a JPEG to print? (print the edited JPEG).

always make an archive with a lossless format, the better quality you can, you’ll never know how much you’ll need these pictures. So a TIFF or directtly a PSD,
and… why not print a TIFF?

2) My second question involves the resolution setting of the scanner. Keeping in mind that I will be doing 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10 and given that the maximum resolution of the printer is 4800 x 1200dpi, should I scan the 35mm negatives at the full 2400 or is that going too far? The size of the file isn’t really a concern if I can get higher quality prints using the high scanner resolution. But, if it the resulting print at 8×10 will look exactly the same with a smaller scanner resolution, then I’d prefer to use the smaller setting to reduce computer processing time and space.

for my point of view, printer resolution have no point with this, MY reflexion is:
calcutate
the size of a 35 mm film, if you want to print in 8×10, calculate the

between what you find in height of the negative and the height of the

(keep in mind that these sizes are not "homothetic"). if you want good prints, you must have a file printed at FULL size at at least 250 or 300 dpi.
so:
let’s say 300 dpi X ratio = dpi that must provide the scanner.
But maybe other contributors have a better method as long as mine was constructed
by my own logic. (it’s not a proof of thruth 😉 )

Any thoughts to the

above questions are appreciated. Thanks.

i hope this helped

I was interested in making digital prints from some of my old 35mm negatives and am seeking some scanning advice. My experience with digital photography so far has only been with making low resolution scans of

for webpages. My equipment is Adobe Photoshop, a HP ScanJet 4570c with negative adapter (yes I realize it’s not a true negative scanner like the better Nikon’s and Minolta’s) and a Cannon i470D bubblejet printer. I

want to make the best occasional family prints I can with this hardware & software in printing 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10 photos.
The scanner is capable of 2400 dpi and the resolution of the printer is

in black and 4800×1200 in color.
1) My first question involves the scanning format…should I save

scan as a TIF, compressed TIF, JPEG or GIF? Perhaps I should save it

it) as a TIF and do the editing of it and saving it as a JPEG to print?

the edited JPEG)
2) My second question involves the resolution setting of the

Keeping in mind that I will be doing 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10 and given that the maximum resolution of the printer is 4800 x 1200dpi, should I scan the

negatives at the full 2400 or is that going too far? The size of the file isn’t really a concern if I can get higher quality prints using the high scanner resolution. But, if it the resulting print at 8×10 will look

the same with a smaller scanner resolution, then I’d prefer to use the

setting to reduce computer processing time and space.
Any thoughts to the above questions are appreciated. Thanks.

I was interested in making digital prints from some of my old 35mm negatives and am seeking some scanning advice. My experience with digital photography so far has only been with making low resolution scans of

for webpages. My equipment is Adobe Photoshop, a HP ScanJet 4570c with negative adapter (yes I realize it’s not a true negative scanner like the better Nikon’s and Minolta’s) and a Cannon i470D bubblejet printer. I

want to make the best occasional family prints I can with this hardware & software in printing 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10 photos.
The scanner is capable of 2400 dpi and the resolution of the printer is

in black and 4800×1200 in color.
1) My first question involves the scanning format…should I save

scan as a TIF, compressed TIF, JPEG or GIF? Perhaps I should save it

it) as a TIF and do the editing of it and saving it as a JPEG to print?

the edited JPEG)
2) My second question involves the resolution setting of the

Keeping in mind that I will be doing 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10 and given that the maximum resolution of the printer is 4800 x 1200dpi, should I scan the

negatives at the full 2400 or is that going too far? The size of the file isn’t really a concern if I can get higher quality prints using the high scanner resolution. But, if it the resulting print at 8×10 will look

the same with a smaller scanner resolution, then I’d prefer to use the

setting to reduce computer processing time and space.
Any thoughts to the above questions are appreciated. Thanks.

I was interested in making digital prints from some of my old 35mm negatives and am seeking some scanning advice. My experience with digital photography so far has only been with making low resolution scans of negatives for webpages. My equipment is Adobe Photoshop, a HP ScanJet 4570c with negative adapter (yes I realize it’s not a true negative scanner like the better Nikon’s and Minolta’s) and a Cannon i470D bubblejet printer. I simply want to make the best occasional family prints I can with this hardware & software in printing 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10 photos.
The scanner is capable of 2400 dpi and the resolution of the printer is 600×600 in black and 4800×1200 in color.
1) My first question involves the scanning format…should I save the scan as a TIF, compressed TIF, JPEG or GIF? Perhaps I should save it (archive it) as a TIF and do the editing of it and saving it as a JPEG to print? (print the edited JPEG)

2) My second question involves the resolution setting of the scanner. Keeping in mind that I will be doing 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10 and given that the maximum resolution of the printer is 4800 x 1200dpi, should I scan the 35mm negatives at the full 2400 or is that going too far? The size of the file isn’t really a concern if I can get higher quality prints using the high scanner resolution. But, if it the resulting print at 8×10 will look exactly the same with a smaller scanner resolution, then I’d prefer to use the smaller setting to reduce computer processing time and space.
Any thoughts to the above questions are appreciated. Thanks.