I keep coming back to this thread, but having been there in 2006 for around 6 weeks and only having scrapped the surface of a fabulous country I can't make too many suggestions for such short trips!

Just enjoy the trip(s), and be prepared to make plenty of stops. On South Island in particular I just found a new vista round every bend in the road!

Four recommendations;

White Island - gently active volcano with great high speed boat trip there and back.

We 'did' Doubtful instead of Milford Sound, and no regrets whatever. We were on the only ship there, and did it as part of a tour that took in one of the underground power stations. A great and diverse day with very few tourists.

We stayed in Queenstown overnight and 'did' the jet boats on Dart and Shotover rivers. Enjoyed both - do at least one! We found Dart less busy.

We went North from Auckland taking a few days to travel right up to Cape Reinga. Stayed in Paihia and the Bay of Islands. Seems not many people get up that way and I really enjoyed it, including surfing down sand dunes, taking in the The Aupouri (petrified) Forest and Ninety Mile Beach.

Practical suggestions;

You might be Pentaxians with great DSLRs and shed loads of lenses, but take instead a bridge camera (I bought a Canon S3IS) or high-end compact with zoom . Something that will take good stills and video and preferably run on AA batteries. I'm really please I did as I just wanted to enjoy the experience and not faff around with dslr cameras and lenses.

If the camera you take doesn't have GPS, buy one to take with you or at least make sure you can record where you are on your phone. You'll want to geo tag all your shots when you get back. I didn't have any GPS enabled devices with me, but fortunately my wife get a good diary. Even so, it still took us a few days to work out where many of our impromptu shots were taken (see vista round every bend).

Bump. £160 anyone? Great first DSLR for someone.

In my experience if an on-board battery fails in a device the date/time would reset to the beginning of the date/time range and any settings made by the user would revert to factory settings as the memory is effectively zeroed each time power is removed.

Only seem to be images of the Magnifinder.

I think no. 3 is superb, then 1, then 2.

Lovely colours.

Scam, but cleverly done.

The relevant legislation is dependent upon the purchase date of the goods concerned. Obviously i don't know when the camera was purchased, but being a K30 there's a fair chance it's prior to October 2015.

Thus is now a well documented inherent fault. I'd look at what recourse you have under the Sale of Goods Act and via the Small Claims Court process if Ricoh/Johnson's are intransigent.

Did you ask about commission sales? They sell your kit for a percentage of the sold price.

Advertise it on here. As said earlier, you'll probably get better offers than selling/trading in to a dealer, any dealer!

Dealers only buy in when they need used stock. You could always try again in a month or so.

Maybe the dealer has a 'glut' of used Pentax APSC at the moment following people trading up to the K1?