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Well, since Latin died before cameras were born, ;) you can use the "Neo-Latin"

photomachina for a regular camera; or camescopium for a video camera/cinematic camera.

But if you want to go old school, you might want to go with something like:

theca crḗre simulacri (box to make likenesses/images)

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