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Definition of Portrait camera
1. Noun. A camera with a portrait lens.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portrait Camera
Literary usage of Portrait camera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wilson's Photographics: A Series of Lessons, Accompanied by Notes, on All by Edward Livingston Wilson (1881)
"THE portrait camera is usually constructed with a square bellows, long enough to
... In principle it is precisely the same as that of the portrait camera. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Photography by Thomas Sutton, George Dawson (1867)
"In the following figure is represented a portrait camera, with a •sliding body,
and projecting sides in front, in order to shade the lens, and give greater ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"The instrument best adapted for this object is a camera of short focal length
compared with its aperture, like the ordinary portrait-camera,—the size of the ..."
4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1891)
"77 it will be Been that the nebula extends but little beyond the well-known oval
in the south of it, while in the prints from the portrait camera negative ..."
5. The American Amateur PhotographerPho (1904)
"AS A portrait camera. The Kodak Enlarging Camera may, by the addition of a lens
board and lens, be used most successfully as a portrait camera. ..."
6. Optics: Light and Sight Theoretically and Practically Treated, with Their by Edward Nugent (1870)
"71 represents a perspective view of Meagher's Improved portrait camera, with Kg.
71. screw and rack-and-pinion action. By turning the handle A, ..."
7. The Observatory (1891)
"More extension is shown in the portrait-camera negatives than can be seen in
negatives with the star-camera exposed for the same time. ..."
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