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box camera

A simple camera shaped like a box and usually having a fixed focus and a single shutter speed.

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box camera

(Photography) a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder

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box′ cam′era

a simple, boxlike camera, sometimes allowing for adjustment of the lens opening but not of shutter speed.

[1835–45]

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box camera - a simple camera shaped like a rectangular box

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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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