fine-grain

[fahyn-greyn]

fine-grain

[fahyn-greyn]
adjective Photography.
1.
(of an image) having an inconspicuous or invisible grain.
2.
(of a developer or emulsion) permitting the grain of an image to be inconspicuous or invisible.


Origin:
1925–30
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Fine-grain is always a great word to know.
So is frame. Does it mean:
one of the successive pictures on a strip of film
a small board with a hinged stick clapped down at the beginning of a shot, used later to synchronize sound and image in the editing of the film
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fine-grain
 
adj
photog having or producing an image with grain of inconspicuous size: a fine-grain image; a fine-grain developer

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