Because Jan is the product manager for the USA, and she is the one who made the arrangements. Jan has no involvement with other territories, such as Europe or Canada or Latin America, etc. If any of those territories want to include the book, I'd love to talk to the product managers for those territories to see if we can make arrangements. Right now, this is a bonus to USA buyers because the USA is the only territory that is offering it.
I should have them in stock and ready for shipping sometime around the end of next week. Price & shipping will be the same for The HMC Book. Thanks for your interest!
Yes, extremely similarly. All the same settings from the HPX are there, plus a few more. They don't necessarily act exactly the same; the AF100's master ped is -15 to +15, whereas on the HPX170 it's -100 to +100; the A.Iris is -6 to +6, on the HPX170 it's -10 to +10, and I also think the Chroma Phase is more accurately aligned to zero on the AF100 (on the DVX/HVX, you had to go to -4 for the most accurate colors, whereas on the AF100 it seems to be about accurate at zero).
Yes, but not in the same way. On the AF100 you use the Color Temp for red/blue, and Chroma Phase for magenta/green.
Glad you found it useful! The AF100 book is very similar, in fact many sections are repurposed, because -- well, the info is the same because the functionality is the same. But there's whole new sections, especially if you're coming from the HVX/HPX Book. It has a lot of very similar or same info, but then there's probably a good hundred or 150 pages that's totally different and new.