Great stuff, we have anxious walls too, this should help. The first photo of your Dad has a remarkable quality, a little unnerving even: 1951? It looks like it was taken ten minutes ago.

That film stuff is durable. And the resolution is spectacular. I think the focus is actually a little soft on his face, but I haven't tried examing the slide with a loupe to see if it's an artifact of the film or the scanning.

I wish I knew more about when and where it was taken.

I have excatly same film scanner. What a coincidence ;-)

Sometimes autofocus is wrong and I must rescan slide or do a manual correction of focus. Automatic mode is often quite good but if you want perfect scan you must fiddle with each slide or film strip for a very long time trying different color corrections, focuses, ... Something what one doesn't want to do if he wants to scan several thousands of old pictures :-(

2900 dpi for film is adequate for many purposes. A 10X print (10 x 15) from a 35mm slide would be close to 300 dpi. At a ten inch viewing distance, 200 dpi just about reaches the limit of the human eye.