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A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

One who practices, or is skilled in, photography.

Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically prepared paper, from photographic negatives, by exposure to light.…

A photographer.

An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.

A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and a camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.

The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.

The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars.

A picture made by any of the processes for reproducing photographs in colors. --Chro`mo*pho`to*graph"ic (#), a.

The art of producing photographs in colors.

One of a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of the motion. --Chron`o*pho*tog"ra*phy, n.

Same as Photolithography.

A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.

The art of making microphotographs.

A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken with a telephotographic apparatus.

Designating, or pertaining to, the process of telephotography.

The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

(found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.