gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Like I said you can rescan a few at much higher resolution. I’m not a perfectionist so 600 is fine for viewing on a screen and prints to 4x6. That’s my view anyway.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

When I scan slides I do so at the maximum resolution possible (4000 ppi, 48 bit color/16 bit per channel, 16X oversampling). It takes 10 to 15 minutes per image, but that's just barely enough resolution for a quality 11x14 or 13x19" print... maybe 16x20/16x24", maximum. If anything, I wish I had more resolution. I'd use 7200 ppi or 10,000 ppi, if I could!

If a scan done at maximum is larger than needed, you can always make a copy of it to downsize. There's no loss of quality doing that.

It's much harder to increase the size of a file when it's too small... particularly a film scan... to make a larger print.

1200 ppi scans will be barely enough to make a 5x7.

Keep in mind that a typical 35mm film or neg image area is roughly 1" x 1.5". So a 1200 ppi scan will make approx. 1200 pixel x 1800 pixel image. It's enough to make a 4x6" print, if you figure 300 pixels per inch. Or, 240 ppi is that's recommended for good quality from most photo quality inkjets means this resolution could be used to print 5x7.5". Neither of these allow room for cropping (other than lopping off a half inch from that last to make it a standard sized print).

If you scan at 300 ppi, the results won't sufficient for any printing. An approx. 300 x 450 pixel image will display roughly 3x4.5" on typical computer monitor set to its native resolution (smaller on a 4K or even smaller on 8K), but that would only be enough to make thumbnail prints a little larger than 1x1.5".

Good scans take time. So be selective about the images you scan. Or settle in for a lot of long nights.

Now you know why the Pacific Image scanner that can hold and automatically feed batches of 50 slides at a time costs nearly $1000. The same reason I spent more than twice that to buy a Nikon 4000 and the slider feeder accessory for it. It was one of the few with slide feeder option, twenty years ago. (I have no idea why Braun thinks their batch slide scanner is worth $4000... On paper it doesn't appear any better than the Pacific Image).

For that matter, it's also one of the reasons Epson charges 5X more for the V850 than they do the V600. The V850 can accommodate up to 12 slides at a time, while the V600 can only hold, what, four?

As someone suggested, while one set of slides is scanning, take the time to prep a second set. If you don't have extra slide holders, buy some! https://www.parts-distribution.com/products/epson-perfection-v600-slide-35mm-negative-film-holder?variant=12604856238133&currency=USD&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=google+shopping&gclid=CjwKCAiAirb_BRBNEiwALHlnD40LBfcrSmfTHwSeEFhgbohHaNWVMRcfVh6gvRARBeoFzE5L4IWKfRoCov4QAvD_BwE