box camera
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box camera
n.
A simple camera shaped like a box and usually having a fixed focus and a single shutter speed.
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box camera
n
(Photography) a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
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box′ cam′era
n.
a simple, boxlike camera, sometimes allowing for adjustment of the lens opening but not of shutter speed.
[1835–45]
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Noun | 1. | ![]() camera, photographic camera - equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) |
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