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(historical) An early kind of portable film camera, the first to use a reflex mirror shutter.
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(art) A technique in which an illusion of depth is created by painting more distant objects with less clarity, and with a lighter tone
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As if viewed from an altitude; panoramic.
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(photography) The viewpoint from which something is photographed or filmed.
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A wide-screen movie filming and projection system, briefly in vogue during the 1950s, involving three synchronised standard-format films projected onto a wide, curved screen, providing a "wraparound" experience for cinemagoers.
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(photography) A photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale, and occupies most or all of the frame.
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(dated) An exhibition of perspective images of different places in the world, using various optical effects.
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Alternative form of cube map [(computer graphics) A panorama consisting of six textures projected onto the sides of a cube that is usually centred on the camera or viewpoint.]
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(informal) Clipping of cyclorama. [A display consisting of a continuous series of pictures placed on the walls of a circular room so as to appear in natural perspective by a person standing in the middle; a circular or semi-circular display.]
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A display consisting of a continuous series of pictures placed on the walls of a circular room so as to appear in natural perspective by a person standing in the middle; a circular or semi-circular display.
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A three-dimensional display of a scenery, often having a painted background in front of which models are arranged, e.g. in a museum where stuffed animals are presented against a painted landscape.
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Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
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(film) A camera effect that appears to undermine normal visual perception, achieved by using the setting of a zoom lens to adjust the field of view while the camera dollies towards or away from the subject in such a way as to keep the subject the same size in the frame throughout.
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The effect of a picture appearing within itself recursively, so that the inner picture contains another even smaller picture, and so on.
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(electronics) The ability of an amplifier to handle strong signals (or loud sounds) free from distortion.
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(sometimes science fiction) A device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown.
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(copyright law) A provision in copyright law that permits taking photographs or video footage, or creating other images (such as paintings), of buildings and sometimes artworks that are permanently located in a public place, and publishing such images without infringing copyright.
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A box containing a source of light and a white, translucent cover, used to view photographic transparencies.
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(music production) The practice of mastering albums to such an extent that it distorts their sound quality.
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(television) Filmed using multiple cameras and camera angles concurrently, often used when filming in front of a live audience.
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A motion-picture camera used in traditional animation to move a number of pieces of artwork at various speeds and various distances, creating a sense of parallax or depth.
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A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces so that they can be combined in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.
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A panorama of the interior of a building, seen from within.
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Written on both sides.
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(dated, photography) A panorama.
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(film) To adjust widescreen film images so that they can be shown with standard television aspect ratios by cropping the original image, i.e. using pan and scan methods.
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(photography) A panoramic image.
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An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.
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(archaic) A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or similar.
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Viewing all; taking a view of the whole.
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(photography) A composite image made of individual photographs, normally of the same shape and size, placed together - to show a panoramic view etc.
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A panoramic photomontage
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A photograph of a relief model.
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(photography) A simple lensless device for producing a photographic image, consisting of an enclosed box with film or some other flat photosensitive surface on one interior side and a tiny hole in the opposite side.
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(science fiction) A device that generates a beam that repels other objects; or the beam itself.
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A picture printed in four shades.
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A device that is attached to an optical device in order to remove all light except for that from a particular direction.
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(nautical) A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater.
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(photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
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The stage, below the main stage of a microscope, to which attachments are fixed.
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A miniature pot of paint for testing and comparison purposes.
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An unbroken vertical view of a scene or tall object; a vertical panorama.
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A special slide used with a magic lantern to produce effects such as moonlight.
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(historical) A kind of mural decoration common in Ancient Roman houses, usually featuring landscapes.
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The point in a perspective drawing at which parallel lines receding from an observer seem to converge.
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