Photographers haven't been required to shoot in full-manual-everything in decades, but not everyone finds this aspect of using vintage lenses a nuisance.
Eventually, however, I needed a new car and the only dealer who would sell me one offered me the special poor-person rate of triple the normal cost for a manual-everything Nissan.
Aside from a few specialized parts like the Mendeola 5-speed manual transmission, everything on the GTM comes from either Factory Five or General Motors.
It is a big brother of sorts who provides a road map, a step-by-step manual of everything needed to run the franchise.
The sequence of steps was hard-coded in advance — the robot essentially followed the manual — but everything else was done on the fly.
The 8,000 volunteers who will welcome international visitors to London 2012 have been issued with a 66-page instruction manual, covering everything from foreign etiquette to uniform care and advice on dealing with journalists.
Published in July 2000 and distributed to all Enron employees, the manual covers everything from workplace harmony ("Ruthlessness, callousness and arrogance don't belong here") to policies on pollution and wildlife: "The Company is committed to environmental protection, and it expects employees to abide by the letter and the spirit of these laws".
Manuals governed everything from letterhead to the look of airplane fins.
They failed to understand that a society in this state would just strip public facilities bare of anything of personal value; the PCs, the software, the copper wiring, the lead, furniture, books, manuals, stationery; everything.
"It's been built up in the consciousness of people over generations that 3,000 miles is the standard, and they've accepted that with such certainty that they check their manuals for everything but that," said Jeff Danzinger, an agency spokesman, in a telephone interview.
