dark slide


nounPhotography.
  1. Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.

  2. a lightproof holder for sheet film or a photographic plate.

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How to use dark slide in a sentence

  • 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.

    Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) | Mary Cholmondeley
  • 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.

    Carnacki, The Ghost Finder | William Hope Hodgson