latent image

noun

, Photography.

an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.

latent image

photog the invisible image produced by the action of light, etc, on silver halide crystals suspended in the emulsion of a photographic material. It becomes visible after development

Light hits that silver to create a latent image, which emerges when it crystallized during the development process.

It is the particular business of a chemical called “pyro” to release this latent image.

The silver particles held this image, but not visibly—it is a latent image, and it is the purpose of development to bring it out.

The latent image arising from X-rays is next in order of increasing stability.

Dewar, Sir James, latent image formed at low temperatures, 202.

The exposure is made and the latent image remains upon the sensitized plate, which is again used to photograph the sitter.

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