stop bath

stop bath

noun Photography.
an acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.
Also called shortstop, shortstop bath.


Origin:
1915–20
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Stop bath is always a great word to know.
So is reverse shot. Does it mean:
a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.
a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity
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stop bath
 
n
a weakly acidic solution used in photographic processing to stop the action of a developer on a film, plate, or paper before the material is immersed in fixer

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