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.

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Etymology

Origin of color filter

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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

The Nova Air C is equipped with E Ink’s Kaleido Plus screen, which uses a color filter layer on top of a more typical E Ink panel to offer 4,096 colors.

From The Verge • Jun. 4, 2022

Whenever there is a sufficient change in heat intensity, a different color filter pops in front of the thermograph's internal light bulb.

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