Originally Posted by
jim10219
I was in a similar situation and bought a used Epson 4990. I also bought Vuescan and am quite happy with the combination.
I’ve never stitched a 4x5 negative, but I have stitched 35mm and 120 negatives that I used a DSLR to scan. It’s easy to do in Photoshop. It’s an automated process. The down side is sometimes it doesn’t align them properly. And then you either have to do it by hand or reshoot/rescan them and try again. If there is plenty of overlapping detail and things aren’t too repetitive or empty on each section (like a building with repeating rows of windows or a plain blue sky), it usually does a good job. Once you get the hang of it, it’s not too hard to predict problems before they happen and adjust accordingly. The less scans/shots you try to stitch at one, the better. 2 isn’t bad. 4 is usually acceptable. 9 gets pretty dicey.
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