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It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
Eve Arnold

Meaning of "box camera" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BOX CAMERA

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOX CAMERA

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Box camera is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BOX CAMERA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Box camera

The box camera is mechanically simple, the most common form is a cardboard or plastic box with a lens in one end and film at the other. The lenses are often single element designs meniscus fixed focus lens, or in better quality box cameras a doublet lens with minimal 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 daylit scenes when the subject is within the hyperfocal distance for the lens and of subjects that move little during the exposure -- snapshots. During the box cameras heyday, box cameras with photographic flash, shutter and aperture adjustment were introduced, allowing indoor photos.

Definition of box camera in the English dictionary

The definition of box camera in the dictionary is a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOX CAMERA

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WORDS THAT END LIKE BOX CAMERA

camera
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CCTV camera
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digital camera
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Synonyms and antonyms of box camera in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «box camera» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BOX CAMERA

Find out the translation of box camera to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of box camera from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «box camera» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

枪式摄像机
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cámara de caja
570 millions of speakers

English

box camera
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बॉक्स कैमरा
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

كاميرا مربع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

коробка камера
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

câmera de caixa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বক্স ক্যামেরা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Caméra boîte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kotak kamera
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Box-Kamera
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ボックスカメラ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

박스 카메라
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kothak kamera
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chiếc máy ảnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாக்ஸ் கேமரா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॉक्स कॅमेरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kutu kamera
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

box Camera
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kamera box
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

коробка камера
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

camera Box
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φωτογραφική μηχανή κουτί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

box kamera
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

låda kamera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

box kamera
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of box camera

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about box camera

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QUOTES WITH «BOX CAMERA»

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Eve Arnold
It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOX CAMERA»

Discover the use of box camera in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to box camera and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Camera lenses: from box camera to digital
This book should be of interest to any who are curious and want to know more about the glass on the front of their cameras.
Gregory Hallock Smith, 2006
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Box Camera Chronicles: Stories of the 20th Century
Stories of the 20th Century Pearl Schwartz. Box. CAMERA. CHRONICLES. Stories of the 20U1 Century. Pearl. Atkins. Schwartz. BOX CAMERA CHRONICLES Stories of the 20“ Century Pearl Atkins. Front Cover.
Pearl Schwartz, 2005
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Discovering Old Cameras 1839-1939
Eastman included these features in a camera he introduced in 1895, a small box camera taking pictures 2 by 1 Vi inches (51 by 38 mm), called the Pocket Kodak. It cost £1 Is. Rather than continuing to pay royalties, Eastman bought out his ...
Robert White, 2001
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Popular Science
By Dave Stanley SOME of the nation's most professional- looking flash pictures are being taken today by a mild-mannered amateur photographer who gets extraordinarily fine results with an ordinary box camera. His name is John J. Loughlin, ...
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Popular Photography
Beginning with the use of Bakelite in the 1930s, plastics gradually replaced metal as the main material in box-camera construction. Among the first of these plastic- bodied cameras was Kodak's Baby Brownie, introduced in 1934. It was after ...
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Popular Photography
Time Exposure continued from iaage 46 press the button, we do the rest,” builtin roll-film capability was added to cameras and the photofinishing industry got its biggest boost. In 1891 the Blair Camera Co. introduced a box camera called the ...
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The Star-entangled Banner: One Hundred Years of America in ...
However, the most famous Brownies commercial product was the Brownie Box camera. Kodak's Brownie Box camera marketed amateur photography to American middle-class children. Eastman Kodak introduced the first box camera in 1900.
Sharon Delmendo, 2005
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Popular Photography
Another box camera of the period was the Ansco Kiddie camera, a small, simple red box camera which took 127 film. In the 1928 Ansco catalog, the Ansco Vanity camera, “an all-metal camera, offered in several beautiful colors, with gold-color ...
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Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice
Operating the box camera obscura The camera works best in bright light. Place the box over your head, with the aperture at the back. When the box is sitting on your head/nose, the insides will need to be light-tight. Wrap a towel around your ...
Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, 2011
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Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces
... an image of The Music Lesson as he paints it. First, it is not at the correct viewpoint of The Music Lesson in plan, which is a small distance further back, directly above Vermeer's stooL (Since we are unable to see the top of the box/ camera, ...
Philip Steadman, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOX CAMERA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term box camera is used in the context of the following news items.
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River watcher: As clear and black and white
I experienced photography when the standard was a box camera and Verichrome b/w film before Kodachrome advanced. My homeland of ... «Oroville Mercury Register, Jul 15»
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On This Day in History
It achieved for home movies what the Kodak Number-One box camera did for snapshot photography in 1868. In 1923, miners and steel workers ... «Edmonton Journal, Jul 15»
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What's happening in Central Jersey: July 5 and later
Jansyn has been taking photos since she received her first Kodak box camera, graduating to a Nikon, a Minolta 7 and finally a digital camera. «MyCentralJersey.com, Jul 15»
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Peter Felsenthal's 'New Growth' comes to Boothbay Harbor
Starting with a Kodak Brownie box camera as a youth, Felsenthal has been taking pictures and processing them for many years. Originally ... «Boothbay Register, Jun 15»
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All police stations to undergo refurbishment
The system uses high definition cameras; infra-red camera, box camera and dome cameras. The dome camera can cover a 360 degree area ... «Capital FM Kenya, Jun 15»
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Stirring photographs of suffragettes and First World War soldiers …
Aged 40 at the time, she was forced to become the breadwinner, and so embarked on her pioneering journey - after borrowing a box camera ... «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
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Hal Gould, Legendary Figure in the Colorado Photography Scene …
At the age of twelve, in 1932, he got his first camera, a Kodak box camera. He was able to purchase it by having saved up the money that he ... «Westword, Jun 15»
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Relay: Close Attention, Good Care
He meticulously documented our lives in snapshots, deckle-edged black and whites or Kodachrome prints taken with his Brownie box camera ... «East Hampton Star, Jun 15»
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Gallery: Christina Broom's Soldiers and Suffragettes
In 1903, at the age of 40, she borrowed a box camera and taught herself to use it. A year later she was appointed official photographer to the ... «The Arts Desk, Jun 15»
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Ladies first: Christina Broom's pioneering portraits of suffragettes
Aided by her daughter, Winnie, Christina Broom carried a heavy box camera and a tripod though the crowd, setting up in front of one of the 20 ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»

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