box camera

noun

1. a simple, boxlike camera, without bellows, sometimes allowing for adjustment of lens opening but usually not of shutter speed.

box camera

noun

1. a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder

Word History and Origins

Origin of box camera¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

We had met in times before the advent of the telescopic lens, and he used a box camera, tuned to a fiftieth of a second.

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Hans was loaded down with a fishing rod, a shotgun, a big box camera, and a bundle done up in a steamer robe.

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My brother Robert and I each had a box camera we received—no, we had the box camera before that.

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Robert Boyle seems to have been the first to construct a box camera with lens for viewing landscapes.

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As with a box camera the extension is a fixture, the size of stop to be used is a fixture also.

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