half-plate

British  

noun

1. photog a size of plate measuring 6 1/ 2 × 4 1/ 4 inches

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Example Sentences

The price on the half-plate daguerreotype could go much higher than the estimate.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2017

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 Morrison, Arthur

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

At the back was a large unframed photograph of the size known as half-plate of the interior of some building.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert

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