I think there also was a 20x16 polaroid view camera.....Good luck and possibly good fun with these! You might need some super-glue for the soles of your shoes to the ceiling though so you can view things the right way up (+ a mirror)!!!
The earliest cameras were "Camera Obscura" but these were just novelties and didn't have film or plates to record the image.
It's from Camera obscura that we get the name "camera".