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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

It’s way more efficient than the color filter method, and so there’s no need for a white sub-pixel to help bring brightness back up.

From The Verge ● Apr. 4, 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 H. R. van Dongen

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