half-plate
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Had the effect depended upon a peculiar relation of the contiguous particles of matter only, then each half-plate, d and f, should have shown positive force on one surface and negative on the other.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
I have here two half-plate films exposed at 8:30 A.M. to-day, one with five and one with six seconds' exposure, subject chiefly middle distance.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various
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.
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