Recent scanners for filmstrips (hope that's the correct translation, colour films for making slides) operate at resolutions up to 4000 dpi. For a regular 35mm slide, this equals roughly some 19.8 Mebi pixels. I won't provide any specific reference, you can quickly check this by doing a Google search for these expensive pieces of hardware.
Like Dan said, it's down to your very personal needs if this is important to you or not.
For me, it's mainly a matter of the absolute costs. There are multiple legendary 35mm compact cameras from the 70s and 80s that easily outperform /any/ digital camera in terms of picture quality. And you can get them for less than 30 EUR at eBay. On the other hand, a good digital camera would most probably fullfill my needs in 95% of all cases as well (plus adding a lot of compfort), but I'm not willing to pay the price (I consider the lower limit to be around 450 - 500 EUR) for that yet. It's not just the resolution of the CCD that matters.
Anybody with only a slight interest in this topic should have a look at {Link} . While the site is operated by a german hobby photographer, the complete navigation and a fair amount of the contents are available in english as well.
Recent scanners for filmstrips (hope that's the correct translation, colour films for making slides) operate at resolutions up to 4000 dpi. For a regular 35mm slide, this equals roughly some 19.8 Mebi pixels. I won't provide any specific reference, you can quickly check this by doing a Google search for these expensive pieces of hardware.
Like Dan said, it's down to your very personal needs if this is important to you or not.
For me, it's mainly a matter of the absolute costs. There are multiple legendary 35mm compact cameras from the 70s and 80s that easily outperform /any/ digital camera in terms of picture quality. And you can get them for less than 30 EUR at eBay. On the other hand, a good digital camera would most probably fullfill my needs in 95% of all cases as well (plus adding a lot of compfort), but I'm not willing to pay the price (I consider the lower limit to be around 450 - 500 EUR) for that yet. It's not just the resolution of the CCD that matters.
Anybody with only a slight interest in this topic should have a look at {Link} . While the site is operated by a german hobby photographer, the complete navigation and a fair amount of the contents are available in english as well.