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Home Dictionary Name: photographic Page: 2Photorelief
A printing surface in relief obtained by photographic means and subsequent manipulations...
Photomechanical
Pertaining to or designating any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving...
Photographometer
An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays...
Photo engraving
The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image to be used in printing also a picture produced by such a process...
Oroheliograph
A camera for obtaining a circular panoramic view of the horizon The photographic plate is placed horizontally with a vertical lens above A mirror of peculiar shape reflects light from the entire horizon to the lens by means of which it is focused upon the plate...
Microfilm
a photographic film with one or more very small images of printed or other graphic matter Numerous images corresponding to the contents of a book newspaper or journal are typically produced on one long roll of film and may be viewed for reading in a special apparatus called a microfilm reader...
Manograph
An optical device for making an indicator diagram for high speed engines It consists of a light tight box or camera having at one end a small convex mirror which reflects a beam of light on to the ground glass or photographic plate at the other end The mirror is pivoted so that it can be moved in one direction by a small plunger operated by an elastic metal diaphragm which closes a tube connected with the engine cylinder It is also moved at right angles to this direction by a reducing motion called a reproducer so as to copy accurately on a smaller scale the motion of the engine piston The resultant of these two movements imparts to the reflected beam of light a motion similar to that of the pencil of the ordinary indicator and this can be traced on the sheet of ground glass or photographed...
Phototheodolite
An arrangement of two photographic cameras the plates of which may be brought into exactly the same plane used in surveying and map making From the differences between two pictures taken at the same moment measurements in all dimensions of the region may be obtained...
Intensify
To render more intense as to intensify heat or cold to intensify colors to intensify a photographic negative to intensify animosity...
Kodak
A kind of portable photographic camera esp adapted for snapshot work in which a succession of negatives is made upon a continuous roll of sensitized film originally a trademark name of the Eastman Kodak Company but from early 1900s through the 1930s it was popularly applied to almost any hand camera...
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