Thanks Derek, I'm very glad you saw them

Yes thanks Rob, now we have to remember that difference between camera models, a fairly new thing!

Cayman, I'm glad to hear the issue is not persisting. Sometimes full automation is handy, but I rarely find it works well for flash ..... We get the results by taking firm control of at least 2 or 3 of the key exposure settings.

I hope your flash work with the K1 keeps going well ....I certainly envy you with that dynamic range and ISO performance!

The K3II is a likely good fit for you. All the bells and whistles, plus physical controls like the K5, but with higher resolution and pixelshift, AA filter simulator and more!

I think there's a 'Flu-card' for remote viewing with the K3II.

The newer KP could do the job very well as well, plus it has WiFi for connecting, but it's above your price range.

Ah yes my achievements! I can gladly say that we have now achieved enough.... I'm going to concentrate more on the photography, flashes and stuff like that

Wow, more precision and patience than I could likely muster! Well done , no doubt you've saved yourself a good sum in repair bills. If I didn't harbor some full frame ambitions for the future I'd probably have got a copy of the 16-85 instead of the D FA28-105.

Thanks! Yes, there's a 'look' .....It might have been because the photographer was pulling funny faces

Thanks also Peter....P-TTL is perhaps unusual in this sort of situation, but with the on-camera flash acting as trigger and fill it seemed to work well. The soft box flash was set to 2/3 ratio and plus 1.0 compensation, and the on-camera flash to 1/3 ratio and no compensation.

That's a very precise point of focus there! Glad to hear it's working again. Am I right to assume that it was your camera contacts that were at fault? I believe it's the same ones that are used for SDM and DC lenses.

Just a quick question first .... Are you half pressing the shutter button with the flash turned on before then taking the picture? The displayed aperture should be the correct one after the half press. The flash will impact the possible apertures the program mode can choose, because it will limit the shutter speed to 1/180th.

The discrepancy might be because when you're setting the aperture the metering circuit has gone to sleep, therefore it doesn't factor in the flash.

Are you using a long focal length? This might he forcing the aperture open to keep shutter speed fast for steadiness. Also check your Program Line setting. ..... The MTF setting might be more suited to your flash images.

Personally I recommend Av or M modes for the needed control over flash photography.

Yes, it sounds as if you have some sort of browser add-on that's doing your searches possibly. A fresh install of Windows won't have this. I don't like the MSN news homepage on Edge (the browser), but I quickly change the homepage to show just a blank tab.

The Gadgets widgets you referred to can he totally switched off in the settings, 'Windows Features'.

Win 10 still has the uncomfortable hotpotch mixture of 'apps' (touchscreen styled mini programs) and the traditional Win7 interfaces, but it's an improvement on Win8 as even the app ones are quite workable with mouse and keyboard, and they behave like real Windows (not swipy things that you can't get rid of).

The best value comes from the smaller capacity ones now, and those that are less than the fastest.

You don't need the ultimate in performance for use with the K10, so I'd look at the 16Gb cards from Sandisk, and' 'Class 6' ... Those should give a very high price to performance ratio.