Re: " The Road to Chama" copyright(c) Richard Boul

When I first started taking photographs, I was very ignorant, but over time I started learning that some things were much easier to fix at the beginning than at any other time.
* natural light provides a pleasing "warm" effect when incandescent lights are used, but provides an ugly green effect when flourescent lights are used.
* Ektachrome is "cooler" (bluer) than Kodachrome
* the grain of the film affects how much detail I can capture (which is why Kodachrome 25 was my standard for many years)
* higher speed "stops" action but at the cost of a wider lense opening (which reduces area in focus)
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etc.
As you get experience with digital photography, you'll learn a whole new set of rules, and of things to be aware of when you do the scanning, because some things are easiest to fix at the beginning.
The biggest of these is to be aware of the relation between dots-per-inch and MegaPixels, because lots of MP means lots of detail at the cost of disk storage and transmission time.