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Definition of Box camera
1. Noun. A simple camera shaped like a rectangular box.
Definition of Box camera
1. Noun. (photography) A very simple type of photographic camera, being box shaped, and with a simple lens, and using roll film for taking snapshot pictures. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Box Camera
Literary usage of Box camera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Camera (1907)
"One day he showed me a box camera—one of those little dollar-and-a-half affairs—
with a shutter that buzzed eloquently every time you touched a button. ..."
2. The American Annual of Photography (1907)
"If much work in public places, taking of natural groups, etc., is projected, a
small and reliable form of box camera such as a Newman & Guardia quarter ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"They generally consist of a cubical box camera containing a movable mirror facing
the lens at an angle of 45° and throwing up the image projected from it on ..."
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