I'm in a bit of a rock and hard place location at the moment. I've continued to work on reviews and get them ready to publish, but I'm prioritizing getting new site designs readied and rewriting everything I've published before on filmbodies, bythom, and zystemuser, while also building out the product for byThom MAX. I apologize for the lack of reviews lately, but that log jam will break, probably early this summer.
To wit:
- Ricoh GRIV review will appear with the refresh of the bythom site.
- Nikon ZR review will appear with my ZR book sometime in the next month or two on current site.
- Additional Z-mount lens reviews will likely wait until the site refresh this summer:
- Tamron 16-30mm f/2.8
- Nikon 16-50mm f/2.8 VR DX
- Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 S II
- Nikon 24-105mm f/4-7.1
- Nikon 35mm f/1.4
- Nikon 35mm f/1.7
- Tamron 35-100mm f/2.8
- Nikon 50mm f/1.4
- Nikon 58mm f/0.95 NOCT
- Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 G2
- Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S II
- Tamron 150-500mm f/5-6.7 VC
Most of those reviews have completed testing and are completely written, but awaiting time for me to do editing and provide examples, charts, and peripheral materials. So there will be a spurt of reviews hitting once the sites are refreshed.
At the moment I have six Chinese Z-mount lenses here in the test queue, but I'm waiting to see what happens with mount licensing before I go further with them. I also haven't acquired a Nikon 28-135mm f/4 PZ, as I don't know how much interest there is in that lens. Likewise, the 35mm f/1.2 S is a bit out of my wheelhouse, so I don't have one of those currently in test. I will, however, eventually get round to those two Nikkors, as I want the new zystemuser.com to be "complete."
If you have a specific question about any of these products, by all means ask me via email and I'll try to give you a quick answer.