Butkus Camera Manual Site Suspended?

<p><del>Yup, it appears to be available again. I would guess it was a temporary domain lapse for the server he uses to host the manuals.</del></p>

<p>Never mind, my bad - I was seeing a cached version of a PDF file I'd already downloaded. The others still show the account suspended notice.</p>

PDF files are still off line, but there is a message from him on his home page that he is working on it.

<p>It works for me now here in NJ anyway. (pdfs open fine now)<br>

9AM - 2 Feb 2013 ... must be the work of the Groundhog :o)</p>

<p>Welcome back neighbor Mike B.!<br>

Jim (Port Murray, NJ)</p>

<p>Got a response from Mike, he is back up, AWESOME.</p>

<p>Just downloaded an Exakta book and paid my $3. Wonderful,</p>

<p>life without Butkus' site would be difficult.</p>

<p>Tell me about it. I got an Agfa Selecta-M a couple of years ago, which I could not figure out how to get it to open, and I usually have a knack for these things. Enter Butkus web site, voila. He is the man.</p>

<p>Gee.. a little blip and everyone is worried. <br>

Back in Jan. '13 I had CC number stolen, had plane tickets bought in the UK, then 5 min later plane tickets bought in Bolivia, then some $400.00 of surveillance equipment bought in the UK again. Sooo I get a new CC number, the forgot to change them on the web site that holds my PDF files. They suspend the site on a Friday and they don't have any staff that can deal with it until Monday. No PayPal link.. UGH ! By Friday night I had a new site and started the transferring the few thousand files to them.<br>

I do have a backup plan should something happen to me... Just like the new Facebook posting you can make after your departure from this earth.<br>

If you want to know what new stuff I have, I have a listing and will update it when new stuff goes up.<br>

http://www.butkus.us/pdf-date.txt It's most of the new (2006 +) stuff I have. <br>

A number of tech sites had the 20th anniversary of the first web page, someone doing a report on his own asked if anyone knows about web pages before 1995. I wrote to him stating: I believe my Chinon CP9-AF and CP7-M were done around 1995. I worked at a college at that time and we had a T-1 line and internet in 1993 (DOS based) and a $1K HP scanner. Very early in the '90 we had a web server and I remember scanning the manual's images and then the text to put them together in Netscape Navagator's HTML program. In '98 I bought my own name (butkus.org) and have opened those files at various times with newer software and corrected things. So there is no remains of what old software I used on those pages. I did find a page on my site I never touched that was moved from the University site I had. It shows I was using Front Page 4.0 in '96.<br />I started this project with just two manuals, the Chinon CP-9Af and CP-7M hence the subfolder Chinon. "Back in the day" there were no real search engines. So when I got my own web page name I started with the CHINON subfolder for those two manuals. After a few years and a hundred files I was stuck with the subfolder name as there were hundreds of links to that folder. I then started to add Ricoh cameras, then Praktica, then Pentax, then anything....<br>

If you ever try to find a film camera manual on some of these other sites, what a game. They just want you to click, click again and again as they lead you round and around to gain advertisement viewing points. Actually some of them will then finally link to my PDF file...<br>

Currently in IE8 + if you look at PDF files they may not show correctly. You have to choose to download them and then open them in Adobe or Foxit. Hence I rarely use IE anymore.<br />FYI: you can go to http://www.butkus.org/chinon or now http://www.butkus.us (backup of just the manuals)</p>

Update - Dec. 2018. my domain names are paid up to 2020, and my hosting too. I went to a new hosting company Host Gator. I have the "gator" icon, I'll find a way to get rid of that. I am now a HTPPS secure site and the site is checked for malware daily. No thanks to GoDaddy. Left them as they kept removing abilities and wanted to charge for everything extra, and a lot of money too. Still buying and posting manuals. Just posted a bunch last week, purchased a bunch from the UK. Need a Exakta 6X6 vertical manual... yea, finally found one. No one else has one posted. I bought the $40 version ( a bit worn), I skipped the $75 one that was in very good condition.

 

I'm fixing things on the site, upgraded certain manuals. For about 8 months now I changed the way I posted manuals, I keep the manual cover as the first page, my "look who did this" as the second. So if you have them on your screen you can now see the cover of the manual. I also put them in Adobe 8 format, MAC users had problem opening them in Adobe 10. MAC users hate Adobe. Any domain names I own just go to my original site, now https.

Keep up the good work indeed Mike.

Thanks for all your work Mike, present and past. I don't know what we'd do without you...

All the best from a several times satisfied customer!

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Thanks Mike as always for the continued hard work.

 

I need to kick some more money your way-I have in the past, but haven't in a while and certainly get plenty of use out of your site!

I've been a user of Mike's manuals for years. When I taught b&w film photo and darkroom with an artists' society students would show up with all kinds of cameras they didn't know how to use and didn't have manuals for. I downloaded what they needed and always contributed, also for myself because I like using old film cameras. Mike provides a great service and deserves to be supported..