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
He drew from the portfolio a half-plate photograph of the thumb-print which appeared magnified to about four inches in length.
From The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
The engineer hastily tore away the paper and took up five or six glass photographic negatives, of a half-plate size, which were damp, and stuck together by the gelatine films in couples.
From Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison
To-day, in Rome, it is easier to get a half-plate of fresh mushrooms from Noricum than to find such.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
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