Originally posted by Rondec I understand what you are saying. I just don't know how much of a difference you really get in real life situations between a sync speed of 1/180 second and 1/250 second. I would love to see these sorts of situations demonstrated, because to me it is a relatively small difference. It reminds of me of the way Pentax users (me included) gloat over the fact that the sensor in the K5 got two points on the sensor score at DXO mark over the sensor in the D7000, when I am sure you can't really tell the difference in real life shooting.
I don't do much flash either, but i did do a portrait outdoors for the Director of a live theater non-profit last summer. It was a classic portrait with her illuminated by flash, and a shakespeare stage, illuminated by ambient, behind her. Worked out fine and she liked 3 of the versions I submitted. My impression was that modern digital processing software eliminates SOME of the need to get it right with flashes. Once the flash had established some contrast between ambient and flash, it was easy to deepen that shadow or lighten it with a few sliders in LIghtroom. So the sync speed had no practical impact on this shoot at all.
So i sympathize with the frequent flash shooters out there, but the K3 was quite a upgrade in all other areas. Hopefully, the next iteration will deal with the whole flash system in its entirety.