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His parents gave him a Kodak Brownie No. 1 box camera, which inspired him to photograph the waterfalls and scenery of the park.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
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
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Word History
First Known Use
1890, in the meaning defined above
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“Box camera.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/box%20camera. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
box camera
noun
: a camera of simple box shape with a simple lens and shutter
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