Thanks folks
(sorry, been a bit busy)

I'm selling my smc m 135 3.5 on this site, if you're interested in trying this length?

I like the tonal quality in the last one. Has a real sense of magnitude and history in those subtle hues.

Cheers Chris

Thanks guys

Thanks Rob.
Alan, Exactly
The K-x was my second backup for a wedding last weekend (main camera: K5) and typically, it just got used for everything. The 1st backup - K01 was slow and unprofessional in this situation so never got used.
Here's another shot from the morning, this one has stolen the show on Facebook, sunsets and cute animals FTW

Invested a lot of time and energy getting to the top of Sheepstor on Dartmoor in time for what I hoped would be a spectacular sunrise. Unfortunately, it stayed behind a bank of cloud until it was ferociously bright and the clouds overhead, which I was hoping would sweep out to the horizon, were non-existant. However, I also took my little K-x up and decided to do some promo shots. I'm so glad I didn't sell that little gem!
Here is a 3-shot pano (on manual, F11 I think) of the fierce sun breaking out over the cloud front.
The dynamic range of that unassuming little camera has blown me away!

Thanks folks!
I think we can consider this closed. It looks like offering high-end scanning is dead in the water.
This sort of thing needs someone with more interest in quality than profits, which would be me, but I think I'll buy a kayak and and a waterproof bag instead
I think you lot may have just saved me from a further 10 years of servitude

If you do go for the 55-300, I have the posh one for sale as I hardly ever venture out to 300 land

I doubt if anyone who invested the considerable amount on a good film scanner, will feel the need to get a drum scan, unless they need to scan something bigger than their scanner was designed for.
I'm guessing there's a whole load of people who use flatbeads to quickly ascertain the quality of their pictures and for web or small printing, but when they find a good shot, they go to a lab - they are the people I'm targeting, when I ask what would make them change; it's almost certainly money.