Originally posted by Digitalis That is why I think it is rather funny that people think Pentax is the only manufacturer that does this: there are others!
I'm not sure who thinks Pentax is the only one with odd quirks in their flash implementation
, but yes, that would be a funny view. You can find silly problems with other brands - some Canon models won't fire a manual flash when in live view mode (at least some rebel models I've run into). Many brand choices come down to a decision of how exactly you'd like to be annoyed today.
My hands on Nikon experience is from ages ago, but a d50 could fire a manual flash at any speed, and with a rear curtain sync option. It happened to have an electronic shutter and could sync reliably and evenly at 1/1000sec with cheap radio triggers. I wouldn't expect anything this reliable without an electronic shutter, but ehh, let us take the risk.