I got a reply from Ricoh on this:
"Herewith we inforn you that officialy Pentax Flucard is fully compatible only with mobile devices running iOS and Android:
http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.uk/en/misc/Flucard-Pentax-16GB-O-FC1.html
Unfortunately, at the moment we do not have any official troubleshooting/support for Windows users."

Has anyone had any success using their Flucard with Windows Phone 8.1? I seem to be able to do some things, but do not get a live view image?

The cheap ebay one that used to fire my K-5 now works fine with my K-3.

Does any body use a Think Tank Digital Holster with a K-5. If so how good is it, which one do you use, and does it fit a DA* 50-135 with hood please? Also there seem to be some hang-on goody bags which attach to it, can you carry a flash gun, or second lens?

Or what is there about which is similiar?

Thanks Rob

Hi Dangie
No luck as yet...I was wondering it this was posted in the wrong forum as there have been so few ideas!
Regards Rob

Hi
I have tried using the following setups with my K-5:
1) Built in flash only
2) AF360FGZ on camera
3) Built in flash as controller, AF360 wireless slave
4) Built in flash as master, AF360 wireless slave

Options 1-3 are consistently well exposed, option 4 is consistently under exposed.

Any thoughts please?

Custom menu "21.Flash in wireless mode" settings:
set to "1 On" for 4) above
set to "2 Off" for 3) above

AF360 set to "Wireless" and "S" of camera, and "On" when on camera

I have the pdf manual for both the camera and flashgun loaded onto my laptop and also my kindle.

The theory is when I am on holiday I can explore all the features in the manual and then practise them on the camera. However I have two small children and the theory doesn't often work!

I would appreciate people's thoughts on focussing the 50-135 at f2.8 on the K-5. My usual approach is fix the focus point to the central point, focus using a half shutter press, then recompose and take the shot.

However:
-at around a meter or so the DoF is a few millimetres
-there is no real guidance on how big the focus area really is

Attached is an example image (my first attempt at attaching an image, so forgive me if it doesn't work) that to my mind is out of focus i.e. far eye rather than near eye.




Am I being too fussy, or expecting too much?

All
I have also found you can do it by adding Quicktime from www.apple.com/quicktime. If I had read more of the adobe manual before I posted the question I would have found this out!
Regards Rob

All
After further research I have installed the Morgan Multimedia MPEG codec and it all seems to be working.
Regards Rob