Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In photography, the material used in a camera upon which the image formed by the lens is seen.
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Examples
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Nothing can be more convenient than the position of this focusing-screen for working purposes.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866
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When the reflector is interposed, the image is wholly cut off from the sensitised plate, and is thrown upwards against this focusing-screen, _g_.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866
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The apparatus, so far as it has been described with any detail, and ignoring what was said about an eye-hole, is little else than a modified copying-camera, by which an image of the transparency could be thrown on the ordinary focusing-screen, and be altered in scale and position until it was adjusted to fiducial lines drawn on the screen.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866
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I do not use the ordinary focusing-screen at all in making my adjustments, but one that is flush, or nearly so, with the roof of the camera.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866
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It is upon this focusing-screen in the roof that I see the fiducial lines by which I make all the adjustments.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866
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For safety against the admission of light unintentionally, I have a cap to the focusing-screen in the roof, and a slide in the fixed body of the instrument immediately behind the reflector and before the dark slide.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866
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