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Box camera
Simplest type of camera manufactured, and pioneered by George Eastman in 1888. It consists of a simple, single element lens, a light blocking box and a compartment for film in the back.
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Box cameras are a class of mainly 19th century camera types, except the rollfilm variants which remained popular as cameras for beginners until the mid-1950s.
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Box cameras are among the original photographic instruments. Over the decades between the 1720s and 1820s many experiments had been made with the light sensitivity of silver halide crystals, ...

BOX CAMERA - Simple camera with a fixed, single-element lens and a light-tight box to hold the film.

box camera:
Simple camera consisting of a lens, a shutter, a media holder, and a viewfinder.
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Box Cameras for Photographic Paper
A box camera for photographic paper can be made of a light-tight cardboard box, from sheets of cardboard or from wood. Peter Olpe (1993) has plans for a nicely constructed cardboard camera.

-Box camera - simplest type of camera manufactured, and first introduced by George Eastman in 1888. It consists of a simple, single element lens, a light tight box and a place for film in the back.

Simple box cameras, replaced by Instamatics in the 1960s and disposable cameras in the 1980s, got around making settings simply by being fixed to one generic setting good for most conditions.

Dry Plates and Box Cameras
In 1871, Richard Maddox discovered gelatin could be used instead of glass for photographic plates. This step not only allowed for faster development but also paved the way for mass-produced film.

Graphic press cameras: mostly big rigid box cameras with some very limited front movements. They were used extensively by photojournalists in the past.

When I was a kid I had a box camera, a Coronet Cub, and I took pictures of my pals playing football and things like that. I liked it. I was a terrible student. I could never do anything that bored me, and taking pictures didn't bore me.

He used a sliding wooden box camera designed and developed by Charles and Vincent Chevalier. But this was not the first discovery of the camera. Johann Zahn had actually built the first camera in 1685 and it was small and portable.

Shutter Bug is fashion from a vintage 1953 Ansco Shur-Flash box camera which I mounted to an old Squarespray "It Gets The Corners" Lawn Sprinkler base. The eyes/antennas once formed Swedish meatballs (.

But amazingly, all these designs -- from the simplest homemade box camera to the newest digital camera -- combine the same basic elements: a lens system to create the real image, a light-sensitive sensor to record the real image, ...

It was special because I had worked for the money and it was the first camera I had really owned Although it looked good It was only a box camera with fixed apature and a single shutter speed of a 1/25 to 1/30th of a second and a flip up piece of ...

-I setting - mark found on some cheap box cameras which indicates an instantaneous shutter speed of approximately 1/50 second.

Given to me by my parents when I was in the eight grade, my first camera was a brownie box camera.
Things have changed alot since then. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have this opportunity to shoot photos.

First we picked a background that would compliment some of the clothes he wears on stage so we went with a really cool blue. Now comes the lighting. I always start with my main light which is a medium sized softbox camera left.

The early days cameras have the shape of a rectangular wooden box and hence called the Box Camera. Today, cameras can be of any colour, shape and size; some are even designed as ladies' fashion accessory.

See also: Camera, View, Film, Lens, Image

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