I am sure we have all come across stupid manuals. Manuals that are written in English – or your language – so badly they make no sense. Manuals on how to assemble furniture are notorious for this, and the cheaper the furniture it seems the worse the written instructions.
Camera manuals can be equally stupid. They might be written in good English (or French or whatever), but notoriously lacking in details or good illustrations. Even when you get one that is well-written, it can be so wordy it can be worthless. In written manuals I often find the type face is too small to even see – and this when my eyes were a lot younger. The illustrations can also be bad. There are so many reasons why manuals – and for me especially camera manuals – are just plain worthless. Hence, stupid.
I like my old cameras, but sometimes figuring them out is a real pain in the tuckus. A stupid manual leads to confusion and frustration. I have one that is a facsimile of a manual written in the 1930s, but someone annotated it, erased or otherwise obliterated details in the image, resulting in missing information. I was ready to throw the camera into the wall with frustration – but I didn’t!
So what is a frustrated photographer to do? I might just rewrite them, update the pictures, and see what happens. Maybe my literary career will get off to anew start and I will be internationally famous. Or else trapped by men with butterfly nets.
Ink, Yarn & Beer 
Ooh, what an idea for a web site! Freshly written and intelligible manuals for classic cameras!
If you check out youtube, someone somewhere will have gone through whatever camera you have. I’ve found tutorials on there for all my old cameras, much easier to understand when someone is actually showing you.
True. I do it all the time. Sadly, a specific camera was missing on it!
I agree!