Ah, the best laid plans...
I'm still up to my armpits in book revisions, partly because Nikon has been so active in firmware updates lately, but also because the Complete Guides are incredibly complex books to dial in perfectly, so my two latest ones still need a little tender love. Meanwhile, Nikon continues to introduce incredibly small differences with firmware between cameras, which means I have to read, test, and annotate carefully.
Unfortunately, on my recent trip back from California, I came home and finally came down with COVID (yes, my first time with the disease). That put me even more behind. Even as I recovered, I wasn't trusting my soft matter to catch all those small bits in the book revisions, so I worked on other things that didn't take as much brain concentration. However, starting this week I should be back full time on the book updates.
Thus, I might not hit my original goal of getting these revisions out by the end of September. I'm working on nine book updates at the moment, so please be patient. The ZR introduction also postponed the introduction of the next book in my Mastering series.
And just a warning for the future: all Nikon's firmware changes have had me updating books more often than I originally anticipated. Every time I introduce a new update to a book, it costs me email and bandwidth charges. I'm not proposing to change my Z System Complete Guides or Mastering book pricing any time in the near future, but one reason why I'm pushing to get these updates done is that I don't want to be doing as many small incremental updates in the future.
Ironically, the film and DSLR book prices may have to change some, though, because it seems that quite a few of you keep asking for new downloads because you lost the file, had a computer crash, your dog ate it, etc. I never adjusted my pricing for that.
