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color filter

American

noun

Photography.

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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color filter

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

QD-OLED changes this up by emitting blue light through quantum dots to convert some of that blue into red and green without any need for the color filter.

From The Verge ● Jan. 4, 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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