Originally posted by TheBlindHog ............ If your supposition is correct that means the camera can only be used with P-TTL metering and that excludes any and all strobes, so I hope you are incorrect. .............
It's not nearly that drastic actually - it just means that one had better not use AWB for non P-TTL flash until that is fixed (that is if it is actually broken). I think it is any case never a good idea to use AWB for flash photography since with flash the light source is very accurately known so WB should be set manually to the colour temperature of the flash rather than leaving it to auto,
By default the camera actually does that itself (unless you override the setting) but with a non P-TTL flash it won't even know that a flash is being used so cannot switch to the flash WB preset.
What I say about avoiding AWB for flash photography is also valid for any camera, not just if it has the problem I think there is with K-3, the AWB will in any case not be as good as the flash preset, especially if there are significant areas where lights other than the flash are dominant.
To summarise - for flash photography never use AWB, in case of the K-3 there is even more reason to avoid it except in specific cases.
One of those specific cases is indeed when using a K-3
with a P-TTL flash, or for that matter any camera that has RGB flash metering of which there are very few apart from the K-3.