box camera

noun

: a box-shaped camera with a simple lens and rotary shutter

Examples of box camera in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web While box cameras are nothing new, the ILX-LR1 is a particularly specialized design with drone-first priorities. Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2023 These include not only original parts and life-size replicas of the ship, but also recovered personal belongings like baby shoes and a box camera, as well as audio-visual testimonies from some of the 700-odd survivors. Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 June 2023 The show’s curator, Kate Bailey, has evoked the era’s flurry of discovery and industry, its devotion to science and progress, with a carrousel of delightful oddities: an eighteen-fifties kaleidoscope, an unwieldy folding-box camera of the kind Dodgson used, the skeleton of a dodo. Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 11 July 2021 The combination of a box camera and a small home darkroom leads to a lot more knowledge than a cellphone camera and editing software. Washington Post, 10 May 2022 Since his earliest memories of picking up a Brownie box camera, Red Huber has always viewed the world through a lens of curiosity and intrigue, but also through a camera lens during decades of work as a photojournalist. Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2021 His mother, Norma, was an amateur photographer who camped out around the city with a box camera and a flash gun to snap pictures of celebrities. Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021 Eager to try out daguerrotypy, a photography method that had been invented just two months prior, Cornelius set up a large box camera with a lens fashioned from a pair of opera glasses, according to the Library of Congress. Scottie Andrew and Brian Ries, CNN, 21 June 2019 Jacob Riis, a renowned chronicler of urban life at the turn of the 19th century, took photographs around New York City with his box camera to remind people of the cruelty of postindustrial working conditions. Noah Weiland, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017

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Word History

First Known Use

1890, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of box camera was in 1890

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“Box camera.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/box%20camera. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

box camera

noun
: a camera of simple box shape with a simple lens and shutter
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