Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In photography, a movable frame fitted to a camera, used to contain and transport a sensitized plate, which is exposed to the image projected by the lens by withdrawing a slide or shutter after the holder is in position in the camera; a dark-slide; a plate-frame.
- noun A pneumatic device for holding a photographic plate during development or other manipulation.
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Examples
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I propped the book I was translating on to the plate-holder and rattled off a paragraph in English, demonstrating the magical removal of my endless misprints.
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Having focussed our camera and set the stop, we then close the shutter, insert the plate-holder in the back of the camera and carefully draw the slide.
Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller
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Professor Wright has taken most of his shadow pictures through only the thickness of ebonite in his plate-holder.
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From a photograph by Professor Arthur W. W.ight of Yale College, taken through an ebonite plate-holder with fifty-five minutes exposure.
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A convenient way to fit this mat is to leave projecting lugs on each side at exactly the same distance from the ends, and cut notches in the plate-holder into which the lugs may closely fit.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 Various
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We now take the plate-holder in our dark room and prepare our developer.
Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller
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The method of making the negative is very similar to that described in making line negatives, excepting that in making a half-tone negative the screen is placed in the plate-holder directly in front of the negative.
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The camera in its strong box was a heavy load to carry up the rocks, but it was nothing to the chemical and plate-holder box, which in turn was a featherweight compared to the imitation hand-organ which served for a dark room.
A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
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The plate-holder must be loaded in a dark room or dark closet, with absolutely no exposure to daylight or any artificial light whatever except a very faint light from a dark-room lantern, a combination of ruby and yellow glass or paper.
Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller
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They are placed in the plate-holder by means of the ordinary cut film holder.
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