Arundel itself is fairly photogenic as it is a delightful old town on a hill. I have never been into the castle which is very pricey to enter and i suspect that no photos are allowed, but there is a spectacular view of it, the cathedral and the town from the south. You would need to park in the town ( not easy!) and walk beyond the ring road and up the hill as there is nowhere to park. The cathedral is very well worth visiting and of course you have the wetlife centre - turn left at the bridge heading out of town, which should keep you occupied for the best part of a day. Further afield Littlehampton is worth a visit and there are photo opportunities around the rive, the fujnfair and along the promenade. The villages to the north along the Arun valley between there and Pulborough are also worth a look- you have to turn off the main road - and there are also birding opportunities there.
You can not go to far wrong with NT properties, Uppark and Petworth House are in easy reach and both are well worth he visit. Petworth has a delightful deer park and a wonderful art collection. Slightly further is Sheffield Park and Nymans - both famed for their gardens which should be at their best with azaleas and rhodies. The Sussex coutryside is at its best at the Devil's Dyke - you should have no problem at all in filling your time!

I have noticed the same thing from time to time and I also think that the reason is user error. I think one has to be very careful not to touch the 4 way switch inadvertently. I do not know why this should be more of a problem with the K3 as opposed to previous models .

I am puzzled as to why a windows phone would not work with the flu card. It certainly works with a windows PC - maybe a windows phone is different??

Excellent photos - they make we want to buy this lens!

You can read the images in a card reader. The only impediment to this is that the flu card ( probably because it emits a wireless signal) uses a lot of current and as a consequence some card readers - mine in particular- do not supply enough current to read this card. I tried by inserting the card into my little Lenovo laptop and it read the card without difficulty.

Yes I am one of them there!! My mentor awaldram has alerted me to the possibility that my card reader may not be delivering enough current to read the card and this seems to be the case as the card works OK in my lenovo laptop, so that is another problem solved. The DNG problem may be solved by saving DNGs to slot 1 and JPegs to the flu card. Should not work like this and the manual does not say this. I reckon early adopters ought to receive some sort of reward for all the hassle they undergo. I spent several hours yesterday on this and all day today!

When I first put the card in the reader, all I got was one of those long windows error messages. I then formatted it in the K3 but that did not solve the problem. The only way I get anywhere near to opening the folder is to select view folders and files in the dialogue box which come up when you insert the card. When I click on DCIM, the screen just disappears. The card should be recognised in drive E but is not so there is no way that I can actually get at it to attempt a repair.

I think I might prefer the flu to the struggle I have had. I have written the following follow up to an initial note to SRS

Further to my note I am now much clearer about how this card ought to work, but think that mine is defective.

I have now succeeded in taking JPEGs with the nexus in tethered mode and have viewed them on the PC (also connected to the Flu Card) and have saved them to an appropriate folder on the PC - so far so good . It seems that the files need to be transferred one by one, so it would be a lot easier to retrieve the files via a card reader in the PC. This can not be done. The card reader produces the normal dialogue box ( windows 7) for a few seconds before disappearing. If you are quick enough to click on an option you can see the DCIM folder but no method or software program will open the DCIM folder and it is invisible to my editing programs.

Although I have had success with JPEGS when I open the flu card image folder on my PC, DNG files are a different matter. I try to save as ( as I have done with the JPEGS) but there are only two save options png and all files. Saving as png produces a tiny 7kb icon and nothing more.

In summary therefore Card can not be read by a card reader and DNG files can not be saved to the PC. Could you please forward this also to your technical contact please?

Regards

The tethering and camera controls are really quite impressive, but as you see there is probably something wrong with the RAW side and I think my card is defective as a fellow forum member has no problem in reading the flu card in his reader. I guess I should have waited until the bugs were ironed out!

Pentax has just published a manual on their website, but it does not mention how you are supposed to retrieve the images. It should work with any phone, PC or tablet as access to the tethering is via a Web Browser - Chrome or Safari. As I understand it the Kindle is a sort of rejigged android so it should work with that. SRS have forwarded my e-mail to a technical contact at Pentax, so maybe something may come of that

My card activates the dialogue box and you see DCIM etc. You have to be quick as it soon disappears. If you ask it to display the files, it says it is empty. Image editing programs do not recognise it and it does not show up as a drive. I am going to write to SRS and see what they think but it seems as much use as a chocolate teapot as I can not retrieve any images stored on the card. I can only access them by connecting via the flu card and I can only transmit them by using my normal connection and they are mutually exclusive. I may be missing something of course, but should I need a degree in computer science to work this I wonder?