I hate it when this happens. We spend our leisure time giving good advice in the hope of helping somebody who has a problem, only for it to be ignored.

I sometimes wonder why we bother.

Worked a treat, thanks.

Well it's a good job I took a system image of the previous Win 7 installation.

I'll stick with Win 8 for a while just to have a look around.

The only reason I tried it in the first place was that I had read that it was faster than Win 7 on smaller machines.

It seems to me that this is not really a new operating system but a new wrapper around the old one.

I'll see what else I can find to dislike about it.

My netbook, Lenovo S10-2, has just spent the last several hours installing Windows 8 Professional (x86).

No dramas during the install and when it eventually became usable I thought the new interface looked very good.

I then tried to use some of the 'Apps' from the shiny new user interface. No go.

For every app I tried I received the message "This app cannot open because your screen resolution is too small."

These apps apparently require minimum screen dimensions of 1024 x 768, my netbook is 1024 x 600.

We are not amused.

Interesting, but have you tried any of our suggestions to determine whether the camera is actually stopping down the lenses?

I suspect it isn't, irrespective of what you are able to set on the camera and every shot is probably being exposed with the lens aperture wide open, hence the narrow DOF.

If your 'pre-digital' lenses are M series or older, you won't have the stopping down problem because you set the aperture on the lens.

As Matt has written, only 'A' Series lenses and newer can have their aperture set by the body. Lenses older than 'A' series ('M', 'K') need to have the aperture set on the lens and use stopped down metering for correct exposures.

I suggest you first clean the electrical contacts on your camera and lens/lenses with a dry lint free cloth to see if that improves the situation.

If cleaning the contacts doesn't help, I fear you may have a problem with your camera, which might be why you were having exposure issues in auto in the first place.

To test whether the lens is stopping down at all with an 'A' series or newer lens fitted, set the camera to M exposure mode, focus switch to MF, set a slow shutter speed of say 2 seconds, and an aperture setting of the smallest (largest number EG: F22 or larger number) for your lens. In good light, look into the lens as you press the shutter button. You should see the diaphragm close to a small aperture for the 2 seconds that the shutter is open.

NOTE: Lenses with an 'A' setting on the aperture ring must be set to the 'A' position for the camera to be able to set the aperture. DA series and other lenses with no aperture ring are automatically set to 'A' anyway.

If you don't see the aperture close down, you probably have a faulty camera.

Lee would have been my choice, and was, but I couldn't wait the 6 months or more for delivery, so I haven't bothered any more.

All 10 stoppers suffer from a colour cast in varying degrees. The Lee seemed to be the easiest to compensate for, but it remains more or less unavailable.

Whichever you choose, you will need to make colour corrections so I suggest you shoot RAW for best results.

If you bothered to read all of the posts in this thread properly instead of effectively de-railing your own topic, you'll notice that your original question has been answered.

In summary, by the absence of any posts confirming their use, it would seem that nobody here has used them, and there is no other alternative available right now for long distance wireless P-TTL.

Note to mods: I think that this thread should be left intact to serve as a warning to others who might be tempted to waste their time trying to help this particular member in the future.

What part of "preferably on another forum" did you not understand?

Still not biting, sorry to disappoint you again.

OK, it seems you have an alternative agenda here. Go try and annoy somebody else preferably on another forum, because I'm not biting, sorry.

I'm done trying to help you.