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What (who) is disposable camera - definition

SIMPLE BOX CAMERA

Single-use film camera; Disposable cameras; Single-use camera; Single use camera; Throwaway camera

camera

OPTICAL DEVICE FOR RECORDING OR TRANSMITTING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES OR VIDEOS

Camera types; Still camera; Cameras; Optical camera; Photo camera; Camera (conventional); Analog camera; Camera make; Camera model; 📷; Plate camera

n.

1) to load a camera

2) an automatic; box; cine (BE), motion-picture (AE), movie (AE); miniature; television, TV camera

3) candid camera ('taking pictures of people without their knowledge')

4) off camera ('not being filmed')

5) on camera ('being filmed')

6) (misc.) to face the camera (in order to be photographed)

Cameras

OPTICAL DEVICE FOR RECORDING OR TRANSMITTING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES OR VIDEOS

Camera types; Still camera; Cameras; Optical camera; Photo camera; Camera (conventional); Analog camera; Camera make; Camera model; 📷; Plate camera

·pl of Camera.

camera

OPTICAL DEVICE FOR RECORDING OR TRANSMITTING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES OR VIDEOS

Camera types; Still camera; Cameras; Optical camera; Photo camera; Camera (conventional); Analog camera; Camera make; Camera model; 📷; Plate camera

camera¹

¦ noun a device for recording visual images in the form of photographs, cinema film, or video signals.

Phrases

on (or off) camera while being (or not being) filmed or televised.

Derivatives

cameraman noun (plural cameramen).

Word History

The two meanings of the word camera, though apparently quite different, are closely linked historically, both deriving from Latin camera, 'vaulted roof or chamber', also the root of English chamber. Camera entered English in the 17th century in the sense 'legislative chamber', and is still used in the phrase in camera, now meaning 'in private chambers'; the Latin sense is also retained in names such as that of the Radcliffe Camera, the circular domed building which forms part of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The application of the word to the device for taking photographs dates from the earliest years of photography; the precursor of the cameras of today was the camera obscura or 'dark chamber'.

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camera²

¦ noun [in names] a chamber or round building.

Phrases

in camera chiefly Law in private, in particular taking place in the private chambers of a judge, with the press and public excluded.

Wikipedia

Disposable camera

A disposable or single-use camera is a simple box camera meant to be used once. Most use fixed-focus lenses. Some are equipped with an integrated flash unit, and there are even waterproof versions for underwater photography. Internally, the cameras use a 135 film or an APS cartridge.

While some disposables contain an actual cartridge as used for loading normal, reusable cameras, others just have the film wound internally on an open spool. The whole camera is handed in for processing. Some of the cameras are recycled, i.e. refilled with film and resold. The cameras are returned for "processing" in the same fashion as film cameras.

In general the one-time-use camera represents a return to the business model pioneered by Kodak for their KODAK camera, predecessor to the Brownie camera; it is particularly popular in situations where a reusable camera would be easily stolen or damaged, when one's regular camera is forgotten, or if one cannot afford a regular camera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable camera

Examples of use of disposable camera

1. Pratt, snapping pictures with a disposable camera.

2. It could have been triggered by the flash from a disposable camera.

3. If there‘s a sit–down meal, a disposable camera is on each table.

4. He recognizes a tall pecan tree, stares for a while, and then snaps a few photos on a disposable camera.

5. But hopes of finding them alive dimmed after officials developed film in a disposable camera found in James‘ pocket.