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half-plate

British  

noun

  1. photog a size of plate measuring 6 1/ 2 × 4 1/ 4 inches

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The price on the half-plate daguerreotype could go much higher than the estimate.

From New York Times Aug. 16, 2017

He took his half-plate camera with him, however; and the two handsome free-wheel bicycles were carefully swathed for the journey.

From Big Game A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

To-day, in Rome, it is easier to get a half-plate of fresh mushrooms from Noricum than to find such.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

He drew from the portfolio a half-plate photograph of the thumb-print which appeared magnified to about four inches in length.

From The Red Thumb Mark by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)

In reproducing lantern pictures from half-plate negatives, the time required on my lantern plates is from two to four minutes, using 6 inch condenser.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various

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