I'll be back in the US in two months and I want to get a scanner to start working on the hundreds (actually hundreds) of rolls of 35mm and 120 negs that I've shot and developed but have done nothing more with since leaving for Korea 2.5 years ago. An Epson V600 or Canon 9000F fits the bill for the most part, except for the fact that I recently came back to sheet film and started shooting 4x5 again, so I've got a growing number of new 4x5 negatives as well (to say nothing of the many, many 4x5 shots I have back home in storage).
Long-term, I'll get a V750 or maybe a used Imacon, but for now the V600 or similar scanners are all I can fit into my budget. I've seen 4x5 shots that people have scanned in two parts on one of these scanners and stitched together, but I wonder if there's anyone here who's actually doing that. I can think of plenty of extra problems one could run into that don't normally come into play when scanning a negative in the typical manner. How does one make it work well?
tl;dr Scanning a 4x5 negative in two strips on a scanner meant to accommodate roll film and stitching the scans: is there a practical methodology for doing it well to produce good results?
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