Crossword clues for box camera
Wiktionary
n. (context photography English) A very simple type of photographic camera, being box shaped, and with a simple lens, and using roll film for taking snapshot pictures.
WordNet
n. a simple camera shaped like a rectangular box [syn: box Kodak]
Wikipedia
A box camera is a simple type of camera, the most common form being a cardboard or plastic box with a lens in one end and film at the other. They were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The lenses are often single element designs meniscus fixed focus lens, or in better quality box cameras a doublet lens with minimal (if any) possible adjustments to the aperture or shutter speeds. Because of the inability to adjust focus, the small lens aperture and the low sensitivity of the sensitive materials available, these cameras work best in brightly lit day-lit scenes when the subject is within the hyperfocal distance for the lens and of subjects that move little during the exposure. Eventually, box cameras with photographic flash, shutter and aperture adjustment were introduced, allowing indoor photos.
Usage examples of "box camera".
Nails came in, and he held a small black box that looked like a box camera except for the small affair on its front.
He was carrying his little box camera, and he held it in front of his stomach now and squinted into the viewfinder.
He left the screen behind and brought only a couple of lamps, not the glaring ones, and his favourite old box camera.
There was a small box camera with a broken lens, a china doll with a missing arm-how she had loved that vacant-eyed doll.
Maurice Plantagenet, his Kodak box camera sitting in the backseat beside Lefty, smiles at Mabel and drives out Jefferson Avenue.
An old box camera stands on a tripod with a black cloth hanging down.
Mortuary photographs were made with a big wooden box camera that could shoot only directly ahead.
He glanced around to see that a short blond figure--Bloor the Portraitist--had slinked up behind, bearing a box camera and tripod.
The copilot watched in growing wonder for nearly an hour as Tom worked methodically on what resembled a large, old-fashioned box camera, which was two feet square and made of heavy metal.