gobo

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It also acts as a gobo - keeping light away from the lens and preventing flare.

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  1. The common burdock, Arctium Lappa. It is much cultivated in Japan for its root, which is there a popular garden vegetable.

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  • Use one side as a reflector, the other as a gobo-type light baffle.
  • It also acts as a gobo - keeping light away from the lens and preventing flare. —  drivebyshooter.net
  • Or it might be made into one of his delicate sushi offerings (spectacularly fresh mackerel); marinated and served cold (gobo or burdock root); flash-fried (octopus); or lightly cooked and presented in a mustard emulsion (sea clam). —  dispatch.com: RSS
  • It comes with an eight-step color wheel plus white and a seven-position rotating slot-and-lock gobo wheel with a three-facet prism. —  Live Design Online RSS Feed
  • A sliding cover provides tool-less access to the gobo wheel. —  Live Design Online RSS Feed
 

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