Longest Manual?

Has anybody ever seen a claim as to what the longest-ever camera manual might be? I'm not sure that's something I've ever seen mentioned. It would be interesting to know.

Mike

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[Dave]

not sure on the longest, but my 645D came with two lengthy manuals....

[John Hufnagel]

My Canon RP is 672 pages long. I'm sure there are longer manuals out there. My EOS 5Dsr manual is a mere 531 pages.

[Speed]

A person much smarter than I (or me?) said, "No one needs more than ten pages from that manual ... but everyone needs a different ten pages."

It may have been someone named Mike.

[Luke]

One particular section of the manual keeps growing. It's full of warnings: "Do not bake, fry, boil, eat or otherwise ingest battery".

[Keith Cartmell]

What a mark of shame that would be, to know the writers for your brand were so incompetent, or that your designers made something so complicated it needed such a manual.

[James Bullard]

You'd have to get them all to determine that but I'll wager that Olympus/OMD would be in the running.

[JH]

Nikon Zfc - 624 pages. Only 51 pages less than my 2021 Honda CR-V @ 675.

[Not THAT Ross Cameron]

Bit of a cheat on this topic, but how about Thom Hogan’s books for Nikon digital cameras. Some stretch to over 1000 pages to adequately explain the camera - because Nikon can’t / won’t.

[tex andrews]

Well, the longest one I have seen is the one for the Pentax 645Z, which is 2 manuals of equal length, each quite dense.