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color filter

American

noun

Photography.

a screen of dyed gelatin or glass for controlling or modifying the reproduction of the colors of the subject as photographed.

Etymology

Origin of color filter

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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Mounting the metalens on a tripod with a color filter and camera sensor, Park and the team took to the roof of Harvard's Science Center.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024

But that color filter absorbs some of the brightness, so LG adds a white sub-pixel to make up for that.

From The Verge • Apr. 4, 2022

QD-OLED changes this up by emitting blue light through quantum dots to convert some of that blue into red and green without any need for the color filter.

From The Verge • Jan. 4, 2022

No "screen" or "color filter"* was needed on camera or projector.

From Time Magazine Archive

He went outside, the dome on a sight-seeing trip and made the mistake of looking at a marspoppy without an antihypnotic color filter.

From Shock Absorber by Dongen, H. R. van

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