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Finlaycolor

Finlaycolor proper noun: an early additive colour photography process that could produce a picture in natural colour with a single exposure.

Proper noun

Finlaycolor

  1. (historical) An early additive colour photography process that could produce a picture in natural colour with a single exposure.
    • The most exciting way of getting instant color was by a process called Finlaycolor, in which, in effect, three color-separation negatives were taken simultaneously by using a grid ruled with microscopic red, green and violet lines. One then made a positive, a lantern slide from this negative, and...2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Origin of Finlaycolor

From Finlay + color; devised by Englishman Clare L. Finlay.

Questions about Finlaycolor

What does Finlaycolor mean?
Finlaycolor means an early additive colour photography process that could produce a picture in natural colour with a single exposure.
What part of speech is Finlaycolor?
Finlaycolor is a proper noun.

Words near Finlaycolor in the dictionary

  1. Finlandizes
  2. Finlandizing
  3. Finlands
  4. Finlay
  5. Finlay-Marks syndrome
  6. Finlaycolor
  7. Finlayson
  8. Finlayson's squirrel
  9. Finlayson's squirrels
  10. finless
  11. finless porpoise

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