Camera Manual Help Section

The work and images are copyright© M. Butkus, High Bridge, NJ, USA.  You may print the manual for your own purpose.  Selling or reproducing them for sale is illegal and with the current laws passed (1998), lawyers would have a field day with you making a profit off my work.  How can I tell.  Hey, I'm a tech guy.. I have my ways.  You may link a manual or my site to your site as long as the end user realized who's work they are viewing.  I work off donations to keep this site running.  There are many people that have found my information of value and donated.  This continues to pay the yearly server fees (not cheap for the hits I get) and the LARGE price I pay for each of the manuals and the cost to ship them. I have every manual I post, to fix any errors that may be found and retain legal "librarian" copyright.

These are the images and full text from the manuals. 
To print, try printing only 3 or 4 pages at a time.  Internet Explorer will not allow you to print until you have finished downloading the web page.  Before you print, try PRINT PREVIEW and see how it will look.

If the printer is printing the colored background, there is a setting under the printer "properties" to turn off that feature.

These are HTML, basic web page, files.  Nothing fancy.  I have enlarged most images, the text is scanned by a computer and put into a text file.  Hence they look much better then most PDF (www.adobe.com) files.   They are very much smaller and faster to download and in COLOR when the manual is printed in color.  This allows you to see the "blue arrow" to show you which way to turn a switch or lens to remove it.  Simple things mean a lot to a beginner.  I have be a photographer since 1970 when I received my first Pentax Spotmatic II.  Still have that camera, quality lasts. 

Similar camera models
I have started to use the "LOADING THE CAMERA" section as a link to duplicate the loading in most similar models.  You load most older 35mm cameras the same.  There are 4 or 5 makes that have small differences but that will be noted in that manual.  So there may be some "non-standard" images.  I'm just saving myself time and space to provide more manuals.  Ricoh "Point and Shoot" and Chinon "Point and Shoot" models may have duplicate pages and images if they are identical.  One model may only have a zoom lens, another, only the "red eye reduction option.  I initially did not consider them for posting but after getting many request for them I added them to my site.   It's amazing the variety of them.  I only scan the page of "multi-language" instructions, not individual images.  I keep the work involved with them limited.

AOL
If you are on AOL and having problems with images or pages, minimize AOL and open Internet Explorer, Netscape or whatever you computer uses as a browser.  Web TV, I don't think you have that option.   AOL gives you a COPY of the Internet and that can cause problems.

Foreign Language
If you cannot read English that will there is an option in https://www.google.com that I have on my page that will "try to" translate the page in German - Italian - French - Spanish .  If it works well... don't know.  Only know English. From that link any further links will still be in that language.

Why would anyone do all this work - how did it start?
I am a Technology Coordinator at a public school.   Formerly a tech person at a College.  I started to learn web pages back in 1993.  Very basic stuff.  Still, I do very basic pages.  Not fancy tables or split screens.  I started with 2 manuals, in 1994 on my college web site.  Not many people had access to web sites back then.  I was learning something new and needed to practice.  Very little information was available on the Chinon cameras I owned since the discontinued their 35mm film market.  There were no big "search engines" and the internet was mainly a USA thing.  I posted the Chinon CP-9AF, CP-7m, and after a few months found people writing to me thanking me for the information.  Mainly other college people that had access.  AOL was not what it was back then.  E-mail was their main option.  Slowly I stared to add many Chinon manuals (and buy them off this new thing called E-bay).   They were cheap at first ($2 -3) and checks were no problem to the sellers.  As time went by the prices for the manual rose and so did shipping.  No longer someone trying to just help another camera person but camera stores trying to make a large buck and large prices (sometimes equal to the manual) for shipping and handling.  I tried the FREE sites as my college site was limited.  50Megs.com was my first attempt.  After eating that space up I got two MORE 50 megs sites.  Plus the upkeep of which files were added, on which site was getting to me. Tried  Topcities.com   I was getting many E-mails of thanks and one person suggested I put up a Pay Pal "donation" icon.   Sounded good, so I had to change some 140 links to add my address for those who wanted to mail me something and the many Pay Pal users on E-bay that picked up a used camera and needing a manual.  Am I rolling in dough?  You see those people on E-bay selling PDF files of manuals, maybe them.  I break even or still pay out more.  Not everyone is nice!  I did purchased a few of those PDF's on E-bay and they were not that great.  PDF is a photo of a page.  The text can be hard to read and sometimes outright unreadable.  Unless you scan it very very slowly for detail there are cheap ways of doing things..   Plus it's black and white.  One person says they have high quality color PDF for sale.  I believe the few on E-bay have the same files.  Are their other places on the web for free manuals.  Yep, I have a page that starts to list them.  

Need a photocopy.. don't write to me.  No time.  www.craigcamera.com (closed) has passed away, the site is static.  They are not operating as of Sept. 2011. 
Be prepared for $18 and up and shipping.

If you wish a printed manual try this site.