Ancient Web: Butkus kept orphan cameras usable with 5,600

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Mike Butkus scans instruction books for familiar and obscure cameras, flashes, and meters—then lists paper manuals still waiting to be scanned. For discontinued equipment, the manual is part of the machine’s usefulness. The site’s boring workflow is its superpower: find the maker, find the model, open the PDF.

Original manual library: https://www.butkus.org/

Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-butkus-camera-manual-library-keeps-orphan-cameras-usable/

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Categories: Ancient Web & Internet History [c23]

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