Box cameras are a class of camera types, introduced in the 19th century and extremely popular throughout the first half of the 20th Century.

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Box Camera TypesEdit

	sliding box camera for daguerreotype and talbotype photography makers: most are unknown, the first one was Alphonse Giroux
	box camera for single plates makers: Zar, Yale, Ernemann
	box camera for multiple plates or magazine camera makers: Dr. Krügener, Adams & Westlake, Houghtons, Suter, Gaumont, Rokuoh-sha and others
	box camera for roll film, the most successful box camera conception makers: Emil Wünsche, H.J. Redding, Alfred Kemper, Kodak, Konishiroku, Conley, Houghton-Butcher, Agfa, Lumière and others
	box camera for roll film with built-in flash, early predecessor of the modern compact camera makers: Kodak, Spartus, Philips and others
	pseudo TLR for roll film makers: Voigtländer, Alsaphot, Haking, Kodak, Ginrei and others

Box shaped cameras with more sophisticated camera technology contents like the early instant camera Appareil Dubroni No 1 or old semi folding SLR cameras or real TLR cameras are not classified as box cameras. So the class of the box cameras is one of simpler camera construction.

One remarkable maker must be mentioned here: Charles Louis Chevalier, who was the first successful maker of collapsible box cameras, a camera type between box and folder, later improved by other makers.