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color filter

American  

noun

Photography.
  1. a screen of dyed gelatin or glass for controlling or modifying the reproduction of the colors of the subject as photographed.


Etymology

Origin of color filter

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Mounting the metalens on a tripod with a color filter and camera sensor, Park and the team took to the roof of Harvard's Science Center.

From Science Daily Jan. 17, 2024

My vision and wrist size aren’t things I can control, but it’s almost comical how much of a difference high-contrast fonts and adding a color filter made.

From The Verge Aug. 18, 2022

Traditional OLEDs emit light through a color filter, but QD-OLED beams blue light through quantum dots to create red and green and produce the rest of the color spectrum.

From The Verge Jan. 18, 2022

No "screen" or "color filter"* was needed on camera or projector.

From Time Magazine Archive

He went outside, the dome on a sight-seeing trip and made the mistake of looking at a marspoppy without an antihypnotic color filter.

From Shock Absorber by Dongen, H. R. van

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