Pictobox

Camera

A camera that takes photographs of varying quality depending on how much money you spend on one, and was brought about thanks in part to efforts in understanding the Sheikah Slate.

The basic Pictobox is made from ancient tech parts, metal, wood, silver, and glass.

A basic, personal use, non-colorized Pictobox starts at around 60,000R. A colorized one is 99,000R.

The Pictobox is sold via shop and catalog. With the catalog, it's possible to customize the camera according to specific qualifications for both functional and aesthetic purposes, whereas in the shop you get what they make.

There's a single workshop that produces the cameras in Hateno Village in conjunction with the Hateno Tech Lab. They are put together by the hands of 12 people with the aid of some machinery. This operation puts out about 25 Pictoboxes per day.

It is fairly common among Hylians, but uncommon elsewhere due to limitations based on differing climates, and in the case of Gerudo, laws banning it's use.

It works like an old camera from the 19th century using celluloid film. While it looks like a Polaroid, it doesn't instantaneously develop photos; that must be done in a darkroom.

The cheapest Pictoboxes can store 10 photographs that are grainy, sepia-toned, and the most expensive can take up to 100 sharper, colored ones.

Celluloid film

The Pictobox is used to capture photographs of anything and everything. The camera became so popular that people use it to capture everything from themselves and their families, to what they're having for lunch. It has a large presence in journalism, and news outlets that write articles without accompanying pictures are slowly losing their credibility.

Most personal Pictoboxes are no bigger than a shoebox, but the biggest ones used by professionals come as big as box TVs.

They can come in almost any color available, but the default colors are red, yellow, and white.

The Pictobox are wooden or metal boxes with a wide lens on the front. The cheapest ones are strictly wooden, colored boxes with a single lens and no fixings, whereas the most expensive (usually professional) are sleeker, come with a flashbulb for taking pictures at night, and come with ornamentation.

For example, the somewhat expensive Pictobox that Conarith owns is made from steel but has wooden paneling on the edges with silver floral etchings, has rods on the back for easier gripping, and has a lens that can focus in and out of a subject.

Can weigh between a couple of pounds to over a hundred pounds.