a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
box camera in American English
a simple camera shaped like a box and having a fixed focus and, usually, a single shutter speed
box camera in American English
noun
a simple, boxlike camera, without bellows, sometimes allowing for adjustment of lens opening but usually not of shutter speed
Word origin
[1835–45]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: catch-up, communism, crosshead, daisy chain, ecumenical