Stitching is not all that bad to do. Here is a 4x5 two-pass lo-res scan from my V500 (I think I did it at 800dpi) and a 100% crop from it. Takes about 60 seconds in Elements 6.0 to do the stitching, and Adobe's algorithms are good enough that I have never been able tell the results were stitched. The detail is plenty good enough for my home-use printing purposes. I can get better detail at 2400 dpi, but the little Epson is very slow above 1000 dpi, and I don't have the patience to wait for it.
That being said, I'll admit I'd like to have a V7xx or whatever would scan 4x5's in one pass--but not at 2.5 times the price.
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