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The best information about scanning negatives is at Wayne Fulton's www.scantips.com. It's easy to understand and explains a lot of details.

If you are comfortable with the basics of photography, the next two links go to sites where the people know their stuff and speak technically. If you're a beginner, you might not get much out of it. Take a look, and you'll see why I list Wayne  Fulton's site higher.

www.photo.net is a site where people who know film, and use film, hang out and discuss its use.

www.dpreview.com is a site devoted to digital photography and the people there talk lots of numbers.

Scanning Film

• Some are sharp, some are not. A few words about the unholy trinity of grain, resolution, and tonality. [more]
• Scanning prints versus film. Pigment grain for prints is bigger than film grain and it shows. [more]
• Scanners are getting better. It's amazing what you can get for a dollar. [more]
• How big can you go? You can't enlarge a print much, but you can really blow up a negative. [more]

Examples

I scanned some negatives at 300 dpi and then again at higher resolutions. The results are awesome. [more]