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quarter plate

noun

  1. a photographic plate measuring 3 1 4 × 4 1 4 inches (8.3 × 10.8 cm)


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The quarter-plate size will be found most suitable, and these may be successfully enlarged to 12 by 10.

Provision is then made to fit into the frame a quarter-plate printing frame, in which is placed the negative.

In half-plate, and three-quarter-plate types of watches part of the disc is cut away.

The hairspring stud is set in the cock like the Elgin three-quarter-plate movement.

The time taken to transmit a photograph, quarter-plate size, is about fifteen minutes.

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