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light table

noun

  1. a table that has a translucent top illuminated from below and is used typically for making tracings or examining color transparencies.


light table

noun

  1. printing a translucent surface of ground glass or a similar substance, illuminated from below and used for the examination of positive or negative film, and for the make-up of photocomposed pages
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Downstairs, an interactive photography studio was the best of museum education: Visitors can dress up with props, take digital photos and then edit them on a light table — all to teach concepts of framing and composition.

Without a proper light table, she spent months editing images shot largely during summers in Rhode Island and New York — many recognized only now as interesting by her mature eye.

I examined the 6-by-8-inch negative on a light table and held it in my hands.

With Albert — whom she met two years prior in Catrimani — and Zacquini in tow, she returned to her São Paulo apartment, to work at the light table.

There, in 1978, the trio sat at the light table next to the wall-to-wall windows in Andujar’s stark white living room and made a plan.

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