Did you say “any manual camera” and “100 years”? Since you’re giving out the “Irony Prize”, I think you should get the “Exaggeration Award” or the “Sarcasm Award” … the latter of which I might claim as a runner-up:
The only manual camera that I’m familiar with has an ISO setting, an aperture setting as given by an f-stop, and an exposure time, and there was a focus that was a nice twist knob and prismatic lens tools to allow one to set that easily. The only obvious overlap in those manual settings is “exposure time”. And while I suppose ISO roughly corresponds to “gain”, we usually matched the ISO setting to the film speed itself and there is no direct correspondence. And even on that camera it had a light meter and a depth-of-field test (so that one could easily determine the range of focus to adjust the aperture and the light meter provided an estimate the necessary exposure time for the given f-stop). Of course in those days you wanted to get it just right because film was expensive to buy and develop and you had to wait a week to see the results…
I’ll tell you what, even with the worst settings on that camera, I may have gotten grainy or dark pictures, but I never got anything resembling the neon green / neon yellow of some of the shots above.
So perhaps you too could tone it down unless you really mean “any manual camera” over “100 years”.
The fact is that until the software is updated to have automatic settings and/or recommendations
of the settings, the Librem 5’s camera is not fully functional simply because those functions are expected
to be available these days … even on cameras that allow manual settings. The fact that people here aren’t admitting that is part of why everyone is so testy.