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dark slide
[ dahrk slahyd ]
noun
- Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- a lightproof holder for sheet film or a photographic plate.
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Example Sentences
Moreover, this something evidently had the power of penetrating through the walls of the dark-slide to the plate within.
It was as if for days he had been staring at a blank sheet, and now a dark slide had been suddenly taken from the magic lantern.
The best plan is to put the plate into a dark slide and draw out the shutter half-way.
In the first case the negative is placed in the dark slide of the camera, both shutters being drawn fully out.
From the satchel that I had put beneath the tripod I took out a dark slide and inserted it in the camera, drawing the shutter.
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